"For anyone who has worked in purchasing for some time, this is as significant and widespread a challenge as we’ve seen."

After almost two years of online European Movement campaigning and Zoom meetings, we were eager to discover what the citizens of Stoke on Trent think about how Brexit is going.

"In a stroke of a pen, the Department of International Trade could kill off one of our oldest and proudest industries."

“The main problem was the lack of information we had prior to this, as it just made forward planning impossible," one takeaway manager complained.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council wants the ERDF cash for the Grants for Growth programme, which helps local firms expand.