@AdamPosen is speaking with @lizzzburden about food prices and inflation at #EconafterBrexit

Irish Foreign Minister @simoncoveney tells @Peston that checks required on goods coming into N.Ireland are causing disruption.

I am now at the end of January 2021 and still no new stock. I can see clearly what #Brexit really means for my industry & how I will have to fundamentally change my business model if I am to be trading in 12 months time. But the government wants more paperwork in five months.

My £1m UK small business is in ruins and I see no way out. Tried everything, feel utterly powerless. Trade with EU virtually impossible. This was so predictable and predicted. Bastards!

“Mountains” of second-hand clothing are piling up in the north-east of England after new Brexit complications have forced one of the UK’s biggest exporters of second-hand clothing to halt exports after falling foul of the new ‘rules of origin’ requirements, it is being reported.

“I’m done with the red tape and the barriers to trade,” FLi Distribution’s director Colin Williams said. / Brexit’s impact on the UK’s cycling industry is once again under the spotlight after FLi Distribution’s director blamed the “red tape and barriers to trade” currently affecting businesses as the Huddersfield-based distributor ceased trading with immediate effect.

“Brexit, for our industry, there’s not a single positive about it” / @ChefTomKerridge describes the huge staffing shortage in the hospitality industry, telling @Peston that there are many hospitality businesses closing 2-3 days a week due to a lack of workers.

EUROPE’S PARLIAMENT has overwhelmingly voted to extend a stopgap trade agreement. But the rancour behind the vote, and the deal’s thin measures, say much about future relations.

The UK’s withdrawal from the European Union has been “catastrophic” for arthouse cinema in the country, according to Louisa Dent, the managing director of UK distributor and exhibitor Curzon Artificial Eye.

Data from one of the world's leading supply chain visibility companies shows that Felixstowe is currently Europe's most congested port.

The Brexit negotiator now recognises “a whole set of problems” caused after the deal.

International delivery firm ParcelHero says August’s £800m fall in EU trade adds to the UK’s economic woes.

Delays, paperwork and additional costs are making British chocolate scarce in Europe.

Their families have been fishing here for decades but despite promises of frictionless trade, the market for their fish is disappearing

Stena Line, the owners of two Welsh Ports, have said that more work needs to be done to iron out “major issues” following Brexit.

"And for those people blaming who are blaming the EU, it's not the EU's fault. We voted for this."

“We drive 44-tonne killing machines. We are professionals, and in Europe we are treated like professionals, but in the UK we aren’t.”

Workers describe ‘unprecedented’ situation as calls to confidential staff helpline hit record numbers.

Jamie McMillan said his sales are down 40 per cent since Brexit.

As the construction supply chain is crippled, homeowners' plans are falling by the wayside.

MPs were also warned that the UK could be “50,000 customs agents” short of what is needed when import regulations are enforced from April.

The SNP has described increased Brexit-related red tape as an “unmitigated disaster” with Scottish companies among hundreds that have rushed to establish operations in the EU since January 1, taking valuable jobs with them.

Three years on from Brexit and the impact to retailers and consumers has been relatively limited. However, in many ways, the most difficult bit is yet to come, says British Retail Consortium’s Andrew Opie.

Sir Elton John has branded the Government ‘philistines’ over the handling of the music industry post-Brexit.

Continent’s press liken situation to 1970s Winter of Discontent and ‘boycotted Cuba’.