Nick Ferrari speaks to 'panic buyer'

One caller to Nick Ferrari refused to admit that he'd engaged in panic buying, despite admitting on air, that he had hoarded 100 toilet rolls and packed his two freezers full of food.

Mick from Harlow, told the LBC host that he'd "been saving stuff for the past eight weeks", in preparation for a shortages in supermarkets, following the initial outbreak in China.

"We've got enough stuff for six months" he told Nick.

But Mick wasn't having any of it, when it was put to him that he was in fact panic buying over his concerns about the coronavirus.

"You've got to take steps" he insisted, before blaming his distrust of the government, his own health condition and how easily the virus had seemed to have spread to the UK.

"How do you suppose to stop the spread of this when you're not monitoring the people coming into the country?"

The 70 year emphatically told Ferrari that "this isn't panic buying" because he "has built up over the past eight weeks".

"If I was panic buying I'd be driving all around my local town trying to find some, but I'm not because we've already bought them" he told Nick.

The Government has told anxious Britons that they should avoid panic buying after supermarkets found their shelves were being emptied at an alarming rate.

Toilet rolls and basic food items have been flying off the shelves - sometimes sparking angry confrontations between shoppers in stores up and down the country.

On Monday, Tesco announced that it would begin to ration essential items in a bid to stem panicked shoppers, while Boris Johnson's official spokesman assured journalists that the UK's supply chains were unaffected and remained "robust".