Extra import controls will be ‘impossible’ for small businesses, says food industry chief.
A British wholesaler who supplies the UK retail market is moving his business to the South of France in order to mitigate Brexit redtape, which he says has cost his business £150,000.
The government doesn’t want to be held to account for Brexit and its real effects – and it’s clear why!
08/10/2022
This week I was contacted by a retired CEO of a major wine wholesaler. They, unbeknownst to me, had asked their local MP John Penrose (Weston-super-Mare, Somerset) if he thought it was acceptable that my wine business had been obliged to open a site in the EU to mitigate Brexit costs.
'We are not the envy of the world anymore, we are the crackpot aunty in the corner that everyone laughs at.'
Daniel Lambert, who supplies M&S, Waitrose and 300 independent retailers, to set up in France after £150,000 hole in revenue.
"The UK used to be one of the best places in the world to drink wine. Now it is fast becoming one of the worst."
Industry experts are warning that wines are ‘up £3 a bottle’ since the UK’s departure from the bloc.