“I mean, what are treaties anyway, when you think about it,” one Twitter user joked. 

“Over 52 per cent. Is that the beginning of a national awakening?”

The EU previously accused the firm of acting in bad faith by offering the jabs primarily to the UK.

Frost insisted that the European Union should accept a “substantial and significant change” to the deal already agreed by the UK.

"England has become a country where the pubs have no beer, farmers don't have anyone to pick their fruit, and even if they did there aren't enough lorry drivers to get it to the shops."

In a video from 2019, Farage says passionately that the food shortages threat is "Project Fear" and "should be utterly, completely, totally, disregarded.”

A professional body representing GPs has warned that the Brexit-caused shortages in HGV drivers will massively impact on practices and patients.

One writer said on Twitter that the company “robbed humanity of a generation’s worth of time to reverse climate change”.

One industry representative said there are 500,000 vacancies across the supply chain, which means Brits should expect food prices to increase.