The baker, run by pro-Brexit Jonathan Warburton, sells 124million of the griddled teatime treats per year with some shoppers claiming the middle-class supermarket's decision 'must be' because its owner backed Britain leaving the EU. Sales of crumpets in the UK are up ten per cent year-on-year, but mysteriously Waitrose has axed its deal with the country's biggest producer, Warburtons, at a time when the supermarket's own crumpet sales fell by 15 per cent. Critics have raised the politics of the Bolton bakery's owner, who after the 2016 Brexit referendum declared: 'Brexit is a very good thing to have happened'. Mail.
