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Scottish rural economy minister Fergus Ewing said the sector was being decimated by the pandemic, Brexit and tariffs.

Damage to the UK economy will be four times greater than hit to EU.

MPs were also warned that the UK could be “50,000 customs agents” short of what is needed when import regulations are enforced from April.

Just over a month since Boris Johnson’s new trade deal with Brussels came into effect, the leading business lobby group warned that urgent action was needed to solve mounting issues with cross-border trade.

“Will he (Gove) make clear that the Protocol is causing societal and economic damage to the union, and will he press on with the alternative arrangements that he previously supported and signed up to?”

"I am just a girl standing in front of a camera asking you to blame the EU instead"

The capital’s service sectors will bear the brunt of a downturn, according to a study published by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.

The peer called for the EU to adopt a “different spirit” in order to ease the “more than bumpy” relationship.

Peter Cowgill, executive chairman, said disruption in shipping goods to mainland Europe meant extra costs in the “double digit millions”.