Rees-Mogg warnings over post-Brexit border charges gets slapped with a glorious community note
12/04/2024
According to reports, Britain faces a £2 billion post-Brexit bill on European food imports from the end of the month.
Giraffe Flowers in Manchester, northern England, is preparing for the annual Valentine's Day rush but florists fear that Brexit trade barriers will increasingly spell higher costs and delays for their business.
Giraffe Flowers in Manchester, northern England, is preparing for the annual Valentine's Day rush but florists fear that Brexit trade barriers will increasingly spell higher costs and delays for their business.
Everything from meat, fish, cheese to meat products will cost more in the UK due to Brexit border controls.
New post-Brexit border controls coming in from Wednesday could result in higher prices and delays in fresh goods coming in from the EU. / It means significant new red tape, and more money out of our pockets on products like cheese, fish, and flowers.
Imports of chilled and frozen meat and fish, cheese and dairy products, and five common varieties of cut flowers will require an export health certificate, signed off by a European vet or plant inspector, before they can enter the UK.
TORY MP Andrea Leadsom has been criticised for her comments as new fresh food and flower imports from the European Union are to be subject to next Brexit customs controls.
Some of the most popular types of flowers are about to be subjected to new Brexit border checks.
Why cheese, fish and flowers could all soon cost more because of new Brexit rules [2 mins]
27/01/2024
New regulations intended to protect biosecurity by imposing controls on plant and animal products mean the UK is "going back in time," according to British importers and European suppliers.
Collapsed trade talks, new border checks, 14-hour queues at the border and medicine shortages... it's just another day in Brexit land.
24 hours of Brexit failures
26/01/2024
Collapsed trade deals, rising food prices, more border checks and not enough flowers for Valentine’s Day – thanks a bunch.
NFU warns blanket import checks from April could fuel long delays and damage future crops. / The UK’s fruit and flower growers face an “existential threat” from new post-Brexit border checks that could damage business and affect next year’s crops, the country’s biggest farming body has said.
The Fresh Produce Consortium said the April draft proposals would have had a “devastating financial impact”.
Getting married? Couples face wedding disappointment with wrong flowers and food due to Brexit
10/02/2023
Venues, florists, caterers and cake makers said clients are having to manage their expectations.
Shadow international trade minister Gareth Thomas asked Defra what assessment it has made of the reasons for the UK florist industry's decline in trade with the EU.
"It's not us putting the prices up, it's Brexit." / Rosa shared some staggering statistics. Between the referendum result in 2016 and May 2018, 1900 florists shut up shop. Between May to October 2018 more floristry businesses closed.
Labour shortages caused by Brexit and accentuated by the COVID pandemic have badly affected businesses across the food and farming sector and could cause ‘permanent’ damage, UK lawmakers stated in a report published on Wednesday (6 April).
Prices for a dozen red roses range from €30 to €100 with florists saying they face losses.
UK immigration curbs on pickers has benefited Irish growers in a seasonal industry.
Flower growers fear end of the UK’s £100m industry as Covid and border restrictions lead to lack of seasonal workers.
Extra charges for flowers after Britain's EU exit still harming him.
Britain's turkey farmers will do their best to ensure Christmas "is as normal as it can be" but shortages are likely, an industry representative has warned.
Many Brits will be forced to go without a Christmas turkey this year because of Brexit labour shortages, MPs were told this afternoon.
'Flower passports' ruin trade as supermarkets corner the market.
Supermarket prices will rise more than is necessary unless there is greater collaboration with European suppliers on post-Brexit trade frictions, a Dutch business has warned.