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Since the start of this year, the project has been relentlessly criticised by politicians and the press over everything from its name to disputed audience figures.
'Get Ready for Brexit' campaign spent £46m of taxpayers' cash without making a difference, watchdog finds
28/01/2020
Publicity splurge was much-mocked at the time for leaving people in the dark about the preparations they should make.
An investigation has been launched into the £120million so-called "festival of Brexit".
Boris Johnson's Brexit obsession 'cost lives to covid' claims SNP in wake of damning report
13/12/2021
Philippa Whitford said civil servants had been distracted by Brexit in the year before the first coronavirus lockdown.
Boris Johnson's government has already spent £4.4bn on Brexit preparations, new figures reveal
06/03/2020
The 22,000 civil servants working on EU withdrawal amount to 5 per cent of Whitehall total.
The U.K. government’s preparations for a no-deal Brexit took “significant time and resources” away from planning for a potential pandemic, a major report found.
Johnson's much-trumpeted FTAs “barely scratch the surface of the UK’s challenge to make up the GDP lost by leaving the EU”.
The British government has spent about 70% of the funds allocated to cover the cost of Brexit preparations. The money mostly went to cover staff costs, new infrastructure and gathering external expertise.
The U.K. government has spent at least 4.4 billion pounds ($5.7 billion) preparing for Brexit since the 2016 referendum, according to figures released by the National Audit Office.
The government paid out £97m to consultants for Brexit preparations, a watchdog has found.
Exporters forced to fill in 48 million customs declarations and 140,000 health certificates over eight-month period.
The UK’s much-vaunted post-Brexit trade deals will only increase the country’s GDP by a minuscule amount over the next 15 years, a report by the National Audit Office (NAO) reveals today.
British companies have filled in 48 million customs declarations and 140,000 export health certificates since Britain left the EU.
Britain's economic recovery from coronavirus will be slowed for two years by Brexit, EU forecasts
06/11/2020
Businesses will have to adjust to new trading conditions in the middle of a pandemic.
Britain’s government has spent at least 4.4 billion pounds of taxpayers’ money on preparations to leave the European Union, the public spending watchdog said on Friday, in the first detailed estimate of the cost of Brexit.
Car drivers face two-hour queues at Dover and Folkestone from January – and even longer waits in summer
06/11/2020
A new report from the National Audit Office reveals the range of possible issues from 1 January 2021.
EU subsidy loss 'could wipe out farms'
09/07/2019
With three months to go before the UK could leave the European Union (EU), farmers say they still face uncertainty about future subsidy levels. / "We could be wiped out like the coal industry."
Festival of Brexit chief claims event was ‘success’ despite falling far short of visitor target
22/11/2022
2.8 million attended live events, organisers reveal – but project branded ‘colossal waste of money’. / The £120m arts festival known as the Festival of Brexit has been “very successful”, its director has claimed, despite falling far short of its target for visitors.
NAO says no evidence of strategic thinking about funding needed for food safety
The 'Get Ready for Brexit' media blitz cost an estimated £100m — but the National Audit Office suggests the ads failed to resonate.
National Audit Office study also highlights failure to get to grips with scale of challenge
Report says delays have left Border Force officials reliant on 26-year-old technology
The government's so-called "Festival of Brexit" is to be investigated by the public spending watchdog after it was reported the £120m project attracted less than 1% of its targeted visitors.
Lack of proper planning and Government secrecy left UK ill-prepared for leaving the EU, spending watchdog finds
04/09/2020
The National Audit Office warned the Government must be better prepared for all scenarios when dealing with future challenges such as the coronavirus pandemic.