Leaving the EU has added a cost burden to the already record prices households pay for their electricity.
The inefficiencies of Brexit cost UK consumers hundreds of millions of pounds, just as food and energy prices surged.
UK and EU are yet to agree efficient trading system to replace single market. / Stalled Brexit talks are pushing up UK energy bills by hundreds of millions of pounds a year, the power industry has claimed.
Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and the Vote Leave campaign claimed fuel bills would be lower for everyone following Brexit. Instead, bills have risen exponentially.
Some of the Tories who argued for VAT cuts as a Brexit dividend are now voting against them
11/01/2022
A dozen Tory MPs voted against slashing VAT on energy bills, despite promising to do so if Brexit went ahead.
After Vote Leave’s broken promises to cut energy bills, poorer areas risk being short-changed by Brexit too
10/01/2022
As Johnson and Gove back off their pledge to scrap VAT for fuel, EU structural funds are not being fully replaced.
"The first rule of Brexit Club is you don't talk about all those "benefits" you mentioned 5 years ago..."
France has threatened to impose increased customs checks on goods coming from the United Kingdom from November 2 over an ongoing fishing row.
A hard Brexit deal with the European Union could leave the UK vulnerable to a gas crisis, MPs have warned.
French minister raises electricity supply as point of leverage in dispute over access to UK waters.
The French government warned Tuesday that it was weighing reprisals after Britain set new rules governing access for French fishing boats near the Channel Islands, the latest skirmish in a deepening post-Brexit dispute.
Britain’s exit from the EU has resulted in reduced trading on the electricity interconnectors between Great Britain (GB) and Ireland and increased the frequency of extreme prices.
The Potential Nightmare Facing The UK If No-Deal Brexit And Second Coronavirus Wave Collide
23/08/2020
A leaked Cabinet Office document describes a possible disaster in the coming months.
Downing Street plays down prospect of food and water shortages in worst-case coronavirus and no-deal Brexit scenario
24/08/2020
Downing Street has played down the prospect of food and water shortages this winter if a no-deal Brexit coincides with a second wave of coronavirus.
Iain Duncan Smith says he doesn’t ‘see the point’ in Brexit forecasts day ‘doomsday dossier’ warns of food and power shortages
24/08/2020
Staunch Brexiteer Iain Duncan Smith (IDS) has said he does not “see the point” in Brexit forecasts on the day a government report warned the UK faced food, fuel and power shortages if a no-deal Brexit and second coronavirus wave coincided.
Electricity price rises are predicted as well as major HGV hold-ups.
Accusations come as PM is set to meet Irish taoiseach Leo Varadkar in Dublin.