Brexit is squarely to blame for the shortage of workers being felt across the UK and the knock-on effects on supplies, an SNP minister has said.Angus Robertson pointed to the UK Government's fixation on ending freedom of movement as the cause for empty supermarket shelves, queues at petrol stations, and fears certain goods could be hard to obtain this Christmas.
A report from the Royal Bank of Scotland released on Friday shows a near-record number of job vacancies in the country, but also the second harshest drop in the number of applicants for permanent positions since the survey was first run in 2008.
Robertson said: “The reason for (the shortages) is quite simple, it’s part of the more general population challenge that we have in
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