This week I was contacted by a retired CEO of a major wine wholesaler. They, unbeknownst to me, had asked their local MP John Penrose (Weston-super-Mare, Somerset) if he thought it was acceptable that my wine business had been obliged to open a site in the EU to mitigate Brexit costs.

People employed to deal with new border checks in Hull which were subsequently shelved by the government have been made redundant, it has been revealed.

Unexpected hold-ups in EU destinations have hit baggage delivery services where travellers send luggage ahead to avoid airport queues.

Regulatory burdens have seen over half of businesses hit by Brexit (54%) across the country, new figures show.

European Commission says failure to apply customs rules in Northern Ireland “significantly increases the risk of smuggling”.

Freedom of movement and customs woes to blame, says campaign body.

Repeated delays in implementing Brexit border controls mean that the state-of-the-art facility at Hull is standing empty, at great expense. / It cost £15.3mn to build and should have started being used earlier this month. Instead, the new state-of-the-art border control post (BCP) at Hull’s King George Dock stands empty...

Guide makes mockery of Boris Johnson’s 2020 claim that UK and EU would ‘do even more business’.

Ports are seeking compensation for the facilities, which were meant to carry out the government's new post-Brexit checks but have been put on hold until the end of next year. / Ports across the country are threatening the government with legal action unless compensation is paid to cover the millions of pounds they've spent building new border control posts.

Portsmouth City Council, which operates the Portsmouth International Port, is still footing the bill despite delayed customs checks. / Boris Johnson’s government has left Portsmouth’s local council holding the bag on a nearly £8 million loan it took out to build a giant warehouse to conduct post-Brexit border checks that may now never be used.

PORTSMOUTH’S newly built £25m, two-acre border control post has been dubbed a ‘white elephant’ by port bosses following an ‘appalling’ government U-turn.

Portsmouth International Port said it was required by the Government to create the £25 million site which remains unused.

Goods and services exported to bloc affected by return of customs border, EU commissioner says.

"The next time some Brexit grandee dials it in from Provence to assure the Today Programme that all is well, report them to the Excise, for not doing the paperwork for their phone, that'll reverse Brexit."

The government spent £21 million buying farmland near Dover for a post-Brexit customs checkpoint which has now been axed.

The European Union sued Britain on Wednesday (local time) over its move to rewrite the trade rules agreed to when the country left the EU two years ago, ratcheting up tensions between the major economic partners.

EU Commission rejects UK’s new legislation and launches legal action against Britain.

Maroš Šefčovič says Brussels will launch fresh legal action against UK over treaty obligations.

Fresh from scandals and an attempted ousting, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s latest plan is to tear up key parts of a post-Brexit agreement on Northern Ireland he made himself less than three years ago.

The U.K. government has pushed ahead with controversial plans to unilaterally override post-Brexit trade rules, ratcheting up the risk of a trade war as the European Union prepares to take retaliatory legal action.

The EU is expected to launch legal action against the UK government on Wednesday over its decision to scrap some post-Brexit trade arrangements.

Boris Johnson’s plans to shred the Northern Ireland protocol have no basis in law, economics or diplomacy.

While the picture’s hardly pretty and certainly not what advocates of Brexit envisioned, none of it surprises economists. As a former Bank of England official observed: “You run a trade war against yourself, bad things happen.”

‘He told a lie to the British public. Again he tells allies the UK word cannot be trusted,’ Labour MP alleges.

Minister angers owners who fear they wasted millions to hurriedly install border infrastructure.