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Brexiteer Priti Patel says UK should threaten Ireland with no deal Brexit food shortages

Disgraced former minister Priti Patel is in hot water again today – for gleefully suggesting that the threat of food shortages in a no deal Brexit could be used to encourage Ireland to drop their insistence on a backstop to prevent a hard border across Ireland. The former Tory Minister for International Development was reacting to a government report leaked to theTimes newspaper that outlined food shortages would be worse for Ireland than the UK in a no deal Brexit....

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