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Operation Brock: Post-Brexit emergency lorry powers around Port of Dover to be made permanent
10/08/2021
The change means the emergency measure – which repurposes part of the M20 motorway as a lorry park – could be put back in place at any time.
UK Meat Industry: Brexit Impact Report
25/03/2021
The UK meat industry employs around 97,000 people and is worth an estimated £8.2 billion a year to the UK, including about £1.6 billion in exports. / This report examines the impact of the first three months of trading with the EU as a third country.
Incident cited as one example of the ‘disastrous’ impact of new rules on goods crossing Irish Sea
A show jumping trainer has said that Brexit has stopped her taking horses to Europe to compete in events.
Cabinet Office minister attacks refusal to adopt a ‘laissez-faire approach’ to border controls.
Fresh border chaos fears as ‘haulier handbook’ to prevent meltdown on 1 January is delayed
11/11/2020
Work on inspection posts for animal products crossing Irish Sea ‘has not yet started and will take up to six months to complete’.
UK trade with the EU faces "significant disruption" when the Brexit transition period ends in January, a government spending watchdog has said.
UK will face ‘significant disruption’ on 1 January even if trade deal is signed, National Audit Office warns
06/11/2020
Watchdog says government has started its preparations too late.
Deal or no deal, British companies will have to confront a wall of bureaucracy that threatens chaos at the border if they want to sell into the world’s biggest trading bloc when life after Brexit begins on January 1.
Sites being acquired as part of efforts to avoid long lorry queues at ports such as Dover.
Brexit travel permits designed to avoid 7,000-lorry jams come January depend on software that won't be finished till April
25/09/2020
A UK government system to avoid miles of road traffic congestion in the county of Kent as the Brexit transition period comes to an end will rely on software which is not yet in its beta version.
‘It’s not an effective system to actually ensure someone is ready to cross the border,’ says top logistics body.
First time ministers have admitted police will enforce need for ‘Kent access permit’.