The government is doing little except look busy over food shortages

Food minister Mark Spencer has summmoned supermarket bosses to explain themselves. He should be thanking them, writes James Moore, for coping remarkably well

Empty shelves are the last thing supermarkets want to see (PA Wire)

Are the “booze cruises” of yore going to be replaced by tomato runs?

Twitter has been filling up with pictures from across the channel of supermarket shelves bursting with ripe, juicy-looking fruit and veg. They don’t appear to have any need of Therese Coffey’s turnips in France.

Is the next step going to be people hopping on the Eurostar to fill the boot up with fruit and veg for happy salad-making? Will we have entrepreneurs queueing up to hire white vans to sell peppers and cucumbers out of the back of? Apparently there has been talk of relaxing quotas. So it’s not impossible to foresee.