One of the UK’s biggest business lobby groups has hit back at government advice to invest in domestic workers, saying the move will not solve short-term labour shortages that are increasingly putting retailers and supply chains under pressure.

Work on inspection posts for animal products crossing Irish Sea ‘has not yet started and will take up to six months to complete’.

Cabinet Office minister attacks refusal to adopt a ‘laissez-faire approach’ to border controls.

Households will be particularly hard hit at start of next year and into spring.

Cabinet Office minister warned hauliers that unless they get their post-Brexit paperwork in order there could be queues of up to 7,000 lorries.

The end of the transition period late on New Year's Eve brought into force the different regulatory and customs arrangements to the rest of the UK.

Business group Logistics UK is urging government to prioritise the needs of the logistics industry, as Parliament continues to debate the Retained EU Law bill.

MPs told of how Brexit bureaucracy leaves lorries stranded for hours without right paperwork.

Hauliers have claimed there will be "mayhem" at Holyhead port when the Brexit transition period ends.

Essential post-Brexit freight software is unlikely to be ready on time for 1 January, those building it have warned.

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Post-Brexit border charges due to be introduced next January could impact UK consumers higher food prices and supply chain disruption, warns UK food and logistics industry bodies.