Rishi Sunak hires City titan Hogan Lovells to grapple with post-Brexit legal complexity May 8, 2022 The Chancellor has outsourced key areas of the Treasury's post-Brexit legal work as the in-house legal department struggle to deal with the complexity.
UK ports call on government to compensate them for delaying post-Brexit checks by 18 months May 5, 2022 UK ports have called on the government to compensate them for delaying post-Brexit checks by more than a year and a half. According to the ports, the government delays on checks on European animals and plants announced last week mean that the high-tech facilities built for the inspections will remain empty until the end of [...]
Brexit papers: More applications for Irish than UK passports in Northern Ireland for first time, 419 every single day May 4, 2022 The number of people in Northern Ireland applying for an Irish passport topped 24,643 during the first two months of this year, more than 419 per day, according to new figures. In fact, the demand for Irish papers in Northern Ireland is so high that, for the first time ever, people in Northern Ireland applied [...]
Brexit from the moon: Dover lorry queue can now be seen on Google Earth April 30, 2022 As hundreds of lorries continue to queue before they can board a ferry in Dover, it has emerged that the unprecedented queue can now be seen on Google Earth. Earlier this month, a 25-mile coastbound stretch of the M20 was closed to store thousands of lorries heading for the Port of Dover or Eurotunnel as [...]
Brexit has led to 62 per cent spike in customs duties for UK firms and consumers up to record £4.8bn April 27, 2022 There has been a 62 per cent spike in customs duties for UK firms and consumers as a result of Brexit, amounting to nearly £5bn. A record £4.8bn was paid in customs duties on imported goods in the last year, up from £2.9bn previously, according to new data by accountancy group UHY Hacker Young. Since [...]
Brexit: Deep decline in EU to UK trade as imports plunge by 25 per cent April 26, 2022 Imports from the EU have dropped by 25 per cent, according to a new study. The new report says there was a sharp drop in the number of trading ties between British exporters and EU importers after the Brexit deal was signed, with “lower value” relationships hit, as Britain stopped selling to smaller countries in [...]
Pandemic passport chaos: Millions put summer plans on hold amid ‘virtually unprecedented’ backlog to meet post-Brexit target April 26, 2022 A “virtually unprecedented” surge in applications for passports after the pandemic has put millions of people’s summer holiday plans in the balance. The country has been urged to get new applications in as “quickly as possible” to meet post-Brexit rules about passport validation, requiring at least three months remaining before being able to renew. This [...]
Boris Johnson’s disastrous India trip: Little progress on trade deal, partygate rows, Tory donor bulldozers and Modi stays close to Putin April 23, 2022 Boris Johnson today indicated at a press conference in India that he did not try to encourage the country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, to go further in dropping India’s neutrality over the Russian President’s invasion of Ukraine. Also, Johnson’s two-day trip was dogged by questions over the deepening partygate scandal, with a Tory rebellion leading [...]
Brexit checks: Disbelief and confusion at Gibraltar border as Spain blocks British nationals from entering April 22, 2022 There are reports coming in that Spanish authorities are refusing entry to British nationals trying to enter the country from Gibraltar. Numerous British citizens were unable to enter Spain yesterday as authorities at the border with Gibraltar demanded to see hotel reservations and evidence of onward travel, such as a return ticket or train reservation. [...]
Post-Brexit travel: New £200 ‘Global Britain tax’ on flights to destinations more than 5,500 miles from UK April 21, 2022 Government plans for a new so-called ‘Global Britain tax’ will make it harder and more expensive for British businesses and investors to forge important new relationships with markets outside Europe, with up to £200 in additional taxes being put on the cost of flights, business leaders warned today. In fact, passengers flying to fast-growing destinations [...]