The number of UK businesses exporting goods to the EU fell 33 per cent to 18,357 in 2021, from 27,321 in 2020, according to data from HMRC.

So five years after the referendum, and six months from leaving the single market, what's the slogan from businesses most affected? Bureaucracy, delay, cost.

Brussels is concerned that British government is favouring domestic firms, in breach of trade deal.

Surveys of sites for offshore windfarms in Irish waters have been disrupted by a post-Brexit ruling by the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) that flights cannot be undertaken from the UK