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We have reached a watershed moment in the long Brexit saga. The government’s U-turn this week on the Great Repeal Bill has laid bare the great elephant-sized conundrum that has always been at the heart of Brexit: identifying any significant EU laws that were both holding Britain back and can be ditched without damaging our own economy.
Ikea boss says Brexit has caused ‘chaos’
19/01/2023
A leading Ikea executive on Thursday said Brexit had caused “chaos”, as a senior UK minister admitted in Davos that Britain’s departure from the EU had brought “significant challenges”.
Lidl has blamed empty shelves at some of its stores on "disruptions to supply chain networks".
In a video from 2019, Farage says passionately that the food shortages threat is "Project Fear" and "should be utterly, completely, totally, disregarded.”
The government’s plan to slash flight compensation for delays on UK domestic flights has been branded as “another Brexit win”, as it would impact on consumer refund rights.
UK pilots urge Government to end damaging post Brexit licence inequality stopping them securing jobs
23/07/2021
More than 3500 UK Pilots have written to the Government to highlight the new and unfair system that means UK pilot licences have been ‘seriously degraded in value and utility’ following Brexit. The new state of play has actively prevented UK pilots, including those made redundant due to Covid-19, from securing UK jobs.
Jacob Rees-Mogg says we should ignore an EU push for speed limiters in cars - but it has the potential to save more lives than seat belts.
UK’s exit from EU ‘no doubt will have been a factor’, transport secretary concedes.
Thousands of British petrol stations ran out of fuel due to panic buying on Monday, after days of long queues at pumps caused by the lorry driver shortage. Analysts say that, in addition to Covid, the speed of the Brexit process bears a lot of responsibility for the crisis...
While the loss of unfettered access to the European Union market has been a huge loss and frustration to UK operators following Brexit, the country’s departure from the bloc will soon deal a blow for UK airspace users. Starting June 25, their ability to perform LPV approaches will be removed...
Brexit has "permanently damaged" the UK economy, former Bank of England policymaker Michael Saunders warned as London was deposed as Europe's biggest stock market.
A company that praised Brexit as "excellent" for business is now near collapse after the government rejected a £30m ($34m) advance.
Ministers are saying “this won’t be as bad as the winter of discontent”. I dread to think what they’ll promise next.
Motorists and shoppers have been urged not to panic buy fuel and goods as the shortage of lorry drivers hit supplies.
The UK is to withdraw from the European Union aviation safety regulator (EASA) after the Brexit transition period, Grant Shapps has confirmed.
The former chancellor said the Conservatives, Labour and national broadcasters "won’t talk about it", but the split with the EU is to blame.
In 2016, Warburtons' boss said: “Brexit is a very good thing to have happened. We could either continue to be in the European Union and wait for it all to collapse around us, or we could make our own way out of it and crack on as an independent nation. We decided the latter.”
The UK will leave the European aviation safety regulator after the Brexit transition period, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has confirmed.
Staff shortages causing havoc at airports across the country have been blamed on Brexit.
A body representing the aerospace industry says it is "disappointed" that the government has not taken an "ambitious approach".
Brexit ‘completely’ to blame for airport chaos, says Ryanair boss – predicting summer-long disruption
21/06/2022
'This government couldn’t run a sweet shop', says Michael O’Leary,
Locals condemn lack of consultation over customs clearance site for 1,200 lorries.
Spike in imports has led to bottlenecks of containers carrying supplies for shops and factories.
Four ferry firms have landed government contracts worth a total of £77.6m to provide post-Brexit freight capacity.
Grant Shapps has announced policy aimed at foreign lorry drivers to help ease supply chain problems.