“During the whole Brexit campaign we were promised seamless trade with the EU, but it’s not happened and it’s being cloaked behind Covid excuses, and once we get over this hole of Covid problems, people will see Brexit as being a huge problem," the UK brewery boss told TLE.

“Brexit and its consequences are news all over the globe because what is happening in the UK isn’t happening there," one Twitter user said.

The National Farmers’ Union has asked the government to bring in a Covid Recovery Visa which would enable UK companies to recruit from abroad.

A pub boss said food and drink prices are rising amid a chronic shortage of workers.

MPs are under fire for fleeing the Commons for conference season just as the UK is battered by an energy crisis.

“Brexit was meant to save us, but instead we’ve been left high and dry," one fisherman said.

Lawyer and filmmaker Peter Stefanovic showed a clip in which the prime minister said the Brexit issue did not come up at all during his 90-minute meeting with the US president. 

Brexit rules are threatening to disrupt Bonfire Night, New Year’s Eve and add to Brits’ increasing costs, with one company predicting a 70 per cent drop in UK’s firework stock. 

“You may think the British public are too stupid to grasp that the ‘unworkable’ deal you despise now is, in fact, the same amazing deal you previously touted," a representative for Brits in the EU has said.