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Nigel Farage was finally left speechless on live radio last night, when a listener called in and demolished his Brexit argument.

The ex-Ukip leader was doing his usual routine on his LBC Radio show of saying any warning about Brexit being anything but a glittering utopia was just scaremongering.

But he didn’t count on listener Daniella Dos Santos from Maidstone calling in and dropping a truth bomb.

You see, one of the big problems about Brexit that nobody’s really talking about is Britain’s shortage of meat inspectors.

According to the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, we’re currently losing about 20 vets a month due to Brexit uncertainty.

Official Veterenarians audit and inspect meat processing sites, certify imports and exports, and carry out official disease control measures such as TB tests.

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As such, the shortage has significant implications for trade and animal welfare across the UK.

Calling into Farage’s show on LBC, Daniella - who is a vet - said: “The minute we leave the EU, we’re going to have a 300% shortfall of vets, and that’s not me scaremongering, that’s a fact.

“And I think both sides need to be a bit more respectful and more factual.”

Farage replied: “I knew we weren’t producing enough nurses and doctors. I had no idea we weren’t producing enough vets.”

“But that’s the point,” Daniella replied. “That’s what I mean. If that had been shouted from the rooftops you might have accused us of scaremongering. Whereas I’m simply telling you that there is a problem.”

Farage valiantly attempted to get his head around the issue, but to no avail.

He said: “If I’m a buyer, right? If I want to buy someone’s services and I pay money for it, if I want to buy someone’s services and I pay money for it, I can do that regardless of whether we’re part of the EU or not.”

But Daniella replied: “The problem with that argument is that, say, we’re organising a trade deal with some Asian country, and that country stipulates that before an animal leaves this country it needs veterinary certification, there’s not much we can do about that. And as it stands, we do not have enough vets to certify for export.

“But that’s not primarily why I rang in. I rang in to point out that this is not scaremongering. It’s probably the wrong language being used, but it is true.”

There followed five full seconds of dead air. Silence as the former Ukip boss apparently battled to comprehend the scale of the problem.

After a further five seconds of stammering, umming and aahing, Farage came back with an argument of banning live animal exports - something the Government is already consulting on.

But Daniella pointed out that his argument was that Britain could produce cheaper food outside the EU.

Farage insisted that wasn’t his point - and instead he was talking about importing cheaper food from Africa.

But he said: “I take your point, it could be the lowering of standards for British foods, and it could be bad news for British farmers.”

He added: “But I still…if we need vets…we’ll pay vets to come and work in Britain. I don’t see why we have to be in the EU to do that.”

As her video began to go viral this morning, Twitter users got in touch with Daniella to encourage her to call in to Farage's show every day.

But she said she wasn't sure the producers would keep letting her on.

She added the video of her call had "gone a little mad" and shared some more information from the British Veterinary Association, which outlines the effect of Brexit on her profession.

Tony Lewis, Head of Policy at the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, said on Friday: “The Government has been consistently warned about Brexit impacting negatively on staffing in a number of sectors, including food, where there is a high reliance on EU nationals fulfilling key roles. This is also true for the meat sector where many Official Veterinarians are from the EU.

“We have been concerned for some time that the Government is simply not getting a grip on the key issues around Brexit and the UK’s food security, and this is simply another example of their lack of understanding.”