The UK withdrew from the European trading bloc last year after a majority of the British public voted to leave in the 2016 referendum on EU membership. Since Brexit became reality last year, the Government has signed a string of trade deals with other non-EU nations. The country is also getting used to the effects that some experts say Brexit is having on food supply chains.<\/p>\n
One person who warned about the impact of Brexit on the UK was Donald Tusk, former President of the European Council, the EUs political wing.<\/p>\n
The former politician spoke for the 2019 BBC documentary, Inside Europe: 10 Years of Turmoil, which charted the UKs journey out of the EU.<\/p>\n
Speaking for the show, Mr Tusk recalled a conversation he had with then-Prime Minister David Cameron.<\/p>\n
The pair spoke as the results of the referendum showed that 52 percent of the British public had voted to leave the EU.<\/p>\n
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Mr Tusk said: David Cameron called me, and he informed me that he was ready to resign.<\/p>\n
I said yes David, it would be very difficult even to imagine that a prime minister who was the leader of the Remain campaign would be just two days later the prime minister negotiating Brexit.<\/p>\n
It was like his day of reckoning was coming, reckoning for his biggest mistake in his life.<\/p>\n
Mr Cameron backed Remain in a bid to see off Euroscepticism among some Tory MPs and provide an answer to the Conservative Partys decades-old questions of EU membership.<\/p>\n
He claimed that the EUs failure to grant him concessions, including on immigration, had swung the vote in favour of leaving the bloc.<\/p>\n
Many are so-called rollover deals with nations that the UK already had agreements with when it was part of the EU.<\/p>\n
However, the UK has also inked new deals, including a huge free-trade agreement with Australia the first the Government has negotiated from scratch since Brexit.<\/p>\n
The agreement means British products such as Scotch whisky and cars will be cheaper to sell in Australia.<\/p>\n
In recent weeks however, some industry bosses have claimed that Brexit has disrupted supply chains to the UK.<\/p>\n
Some supermarkets and trade associations have warned that there could be food shortages unless the Government eases post-Brexit visa rules for EU workers.<\/p>\n
The chairman of Tesco, the UKs biggest supermarket, has said that more HGV drivers are needed to meet a shortfall of almost 100,000.<\/p>\n
However, the Government has so far stood firm on the situation and its will to honour the result of the Brexit vote.<\/p>\n
A Home Office spokesperson said: The British people repeatedly voted to end free movement and take back control of our immigration system.<\/p>\n
Employers should invest in our domestic workforce instead of relying on labour from abroad.<\/p>\n
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