PARTY leaders have been warned against “conveniently ignoring” the impact of Brexit on the cost-of-living crisis by the SNP’s Westminster leader ahead of this week’s local elections.
In a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Labour leader Keir Starmer and LibDem leader Ed Davey, Ian Blackford MP cited recent evidence gathered by UK in a Changing Europe suggesting that food prices rose by 6% between the end of 2019 and September 2021 as a direct consequence of what Blackford described as “the extreme Brexit chosen, imposed and pushed through by the UK Government.”
