"Brexit effects more negative than expected" / KPMG/BCCG survey: Companies draw conclusions
28/04/2021
Around 100 days after Brexit, most companies are experiencing Brexit effects that are more negative than they expected at the beginning of the year.
Designers and architects in the UK are suffering in the wake of Brexit, with companies abandoning exports and setting up offices in the EU to avoid losing clients.
"Re-join the single market to undo Brexit damage" says Plaid Cymru Leader Rhun ap Iorwerth
23/06/2023
Wales and the rest of the UK should re-join the single market to undo the economic damage caused by Brexit, Plaid Cymru has said.
"They said free-trade, this is no trade" Calls for compensation over post-Brexit shellfish ban
26/03/2021
Whitstable's world famous oyster export industry is under threat, following a post-Brexit ban on the export of live shellfish direct from British waters.
"We're stuffed" - Brixham fish merchant Ian Perkes says he's unable to export his fish to France
04/01/2021
"We're stuffed" - Brixham fish merchant Ian Perkes says he's unable to export his fish to France now the new post-Brexit rules and regulation have come into force.
The financial toll of Brexit is clear for exporters like cookware maker Neil Currie: He is buried in new paperwork, has lost orders and the cost of exporting frying pans to France has doubled.
Scottish fishing representative made renewed plea for a 'grace period' and for EU customs posts in Scotland to reduce bureaucratic delays being faced by exporters.
A significant amount of the UK’s meat production may become non-compliant for export to the EU if proposed changes are implemented, the sheep sector has warned.
'Brexit cost my bicycle business £250,000 extra in just two months, and I can't see any positives'
18/04/2021
The extra costs of doing trade with Europe have already wiped out the entire 2020 profits of Frog Bikes in Pontypool
'Brexit red tape means I still can't sell to EU and NI,' cheese producer tells James O'Brien
19/02/2021
Brexit red tape has left the Cheshire Cheese Company unable to sell to the EU and Northern Ireland and "it seems that it can't be resolved."
'Brexit scaremongering was fact', ex-French Ambassador to UK tells Rachel Johnson [2 mins]
10/05/2021
France's former ambassador to the UK Sylvie Bermann tells LBC that Brexit had "no advantages" and that facts were presented as "scaremongering".
There is a stark disconnect between promises of prosperity and the grim post-Brexit reality for the UK fishing industry, according to fishing boat owner Mark Addison. "There's been issues with queues, passports, paperwork, groupage in lorries.... which is a big problem with fresh produce like fish." says Mr Addison, speaking from Peterhead in Scotland, Europe's largest whitefish market.
'High value' UK livestock trade could be lost after Brexit following cash blow to Portsmouth port
03/02/2021
Portsmouth International Port will only get £17.1 out of £32m, meaning an essential live animal border control point cannot be built.
'I made a mistake voting for Brexit' says business owner as stock sits waiting to leave warehouse
29/01/2021
Businesses in the West Midlands say they are experiencing big delays in exporting to Europe or having goods returned to the UK due to problems with paperwork and VAT payments.
'I was an idiot': Exporter who 'bought' Brexit slams 'staggering and obscene' costs [4 mins]
09/02/2022
This exporter tells James O'Brien that "filling in commodity codes" and "getting test certificates" for his products because of Brexit has caused "staggering and obscene" costs and delays for his business.
'I've got 90,000kg of stock stuck in a warehouse because of Brexit red tape and it could cost me £400,000'
16/02/2021
A Welsh business is at risk of losing £400,000 because of "preposterous bureaucracy" brought about by Brexit.
Deal or no deal, British companies will have to confront a wall of bureaucracy that threatens chaos at the border if they want to sell into the world’s biggest trading bloc when life after Brexit begins on January 1.
Businesses cite higher costs, customs delays and paperwork as among the problems they face.
'I’ve led a cross-party group to tell Liz that sticking her head in the sand is just not good enough.'
15/02/2021
Liz Truss has told six MPs she will not answer their questions in Parliament next week because they want to ask about the problems facing British exporters trading with Europe. I’ve led a cross-party group to tell Liz that sticking her head in the sand is just not good enough.
'Like turkeys voting for Christmas': Farmers tell William and Kate no-deal Brexit could be 'absolutely dire'
11/06/2019
UK farmers today told William and Kate that Brexit could be "absolutely dire" for their livelihoods, with one saying voting Leave was like "turkeys voting for Christmas".
A Welsh shellfish wholesaler says she is worried for her future after nearly £50,000 of lobsters, prawns and crabs were delayed for more than 30 hours on a lorry to Spain.
'Rishi Sunak told me Brexit would be amazing - now four independent businesses in our home town are closing'
13/08/2023
Jo Foster has asked her MP, Rishi Sunak, three times for help with her businesses struggling after Brexit. She told Politics Editor Ralph Blackburn he needs to face up to reality.