‘Some of my best friends in textiles voted for Brexit. It amazed me’: The lace boss who went viral
13/04/2023
Charles Mason on how a post-Brexit duties demand has battered his family's historic lace firm.
Cluny Lace, known for embellishing Kate Middleton’s (now the Princess of Wales) wedding dress, is facing closure after HMRC implements post-Brexit duty rules, hitting the company with £10,000 duty debt.
Centuries-old lace maker behind Princess of Wales’s wedding dress hit with ‘terminal’ post-Brexit bill
11/04/2023
Family-owned company faces uncertain future because of ‘shortcomings’ in the UK-EU trade agreement.
Derbyshire's The Cluny Lace Company says it has been hit by a new import levy backdated to the UK leaving the EU.
The boss of a Derbyshire lace manufacturer which can trace its history back three centuries says Brexit has said company faces being “killed off by our own side in a couple of years” because of levies imposed on it.