No Deal Brexit would place food banks in ‘dangerous position’, warns Ian Blackford

Food banks could run out of supplies and be forced to turn away society’s most vulnerable if the UK crashes out of the EU next week, the SNP leader at Westminster has warned.

Ian Blackford said a No Deal Brexit would leave food banks in “a very dangerous position” as supermarkets could be forced to prioritise supplies for customers.

The use of food banks in Scotland hit a record high in 2018 after soaring by 17 per cent in the previous year, a report by the Trussell Trust found.