Industry bosses have told MPs that the UK is in denial about the scale of the problem facing seafood and other exporters to the EU THE UK Government has been accused of being in denial about the scale of the problem facing businesses exporting to Europe. The heads of Scottish business groups in the food and drinks industry told MPs on the Scottish Affairs Committee at Westminster that the biggest problem facing exporters is not paperwork or IT issues, but the denial of the UK Government to accept the scale of the problem. James Withers, chief executive at Scottish Food and Drink, told the committee that pleas for a grace period on post-Brexit trading arrangements “fell on deaf ears”.