From queues in Dover to rising food prices, Brexit has been blamed for a number of things impacting families. But it has given us Rishi Sunak's 'Brexit pub guarantee' - here we look at the good, the bad and the ugly consequences.

Cabinet Office minister attacks refusal to adopt a ‘laissez-faire approach’ to border controls.

Memo warns of ‘critical gaps’ in new IT systems – with just four months to go to end of transition.

Essential post-Brexit freight software is unlikely to be ready on time for 1 January, those building it have warned.

New supply chains, brand new system, and ... oh dear, it's still not ready yet.

The end of the holiday season heralds the return to centre stage of a number of burning Brexit-related issues this autumn.

The end of the transition period late on New Year's Eve brought into force the different regulatory and customs arrangements to the rest of the UK.

A new system for monitoring non-EU travellers entering the bloc’s Schengen Area is scheduled to be implemented in April next year and may lead to delays of 17 miles, an industry insider warned today.

One of the UK’s biggest business lobby groups has hit back at government advice to invest in domestic workers, saying the move will not solve short-term labour shortages that are increasingly putting retailers and supply chains under pressure.

UK trade volumes have been “suppressed” by the impact of Brexit and Covid-19 and the impact of new customs agreements on businesses is “concerning”, according to MPs.

Modelling projects 29-mile queues from potential delays caused by new digital controls, says trade body.

Business group Logistics UK has reacted with dismay at today’s (7 July 2021) announcement of the continued relaxation of drivers’ hours legislation until 8 August 2021, which governs the length of time which HGV drivers are legally expected to work.

MPs told of how Brexit bureaucracy leaves lorries stranded for hours without right paperwork.

Work on inspection posts for animal products crossing Irish Sea ‘has not yet started and will take up to six months to complete’.

Any additional delays to the introduction of post-Brexit border checks on imports will simply postpone the inevitable, and send mixed signals to businesses that have been urged for months to get ready for the additional formalities involved with moving goods across the UK’s borders, according to business group Logistics UK.

Ireland’s European commissioner criticises decision by DUP minister affecting food and animal imports.

Hauliers have claimed there will be "mayhem" at Holyhead port when the Brexit transition period ends.

But over the course of the year, a crisis, fuelled by the decision to leave the European Union, has been steadily, stealthily, stretching its tentacles around many of the services and products we expect and rely on.

Business group Logistics UK is urging government to prioritise the needs of the logistics industry, as Parliament continues to debate the Retained EU Law bill.

Cabinet Office minister warned hauliers that unless they get their post-Brexit paperwork in order there could be queues of up to 7,000 lorries.

The government agency said there had been a problem with some cameras after a 17k queue formed on the M20.

Industry chiefs and experts tell i the introduction of customs controls could also affect small businesses, some of which could be forced to pay tariffs.

Lorry drivers will be required to leave their cabs to undergo biometric checks in order to cross the Channel from next year.

Businesses say bloc has listened and gone ‘beyond expectations’, increasing their hopes of a deal.

Post-Brexit border charges due to be introduced next January could impact UK consumers higher food prices and supply chain disruption, warns UK food and logistics industry bodies.

Spike in imports has led to bottlenecks of containers carrying supplies for shops and factories.

The context is a national shortage of drivers made worse by Brexit and the unwelcoming environment for foreign nationals now fostered by government.

A shortage of UK workers is hitting supermarket shelves in Wales.

Pressure on supply chains is set to last throughout 2022, according to Logistics UK in a report that comes at the same time as fresh issues related to trade with Europe appear, with the government proposing unilateral action on Brexit.

Almost a third of U.K. logistics companies expect to face trucker shortages this year, and a 10th say recruitment issues will pose an “extreme barrier” to the recovery of their business from the pandemic.

The UK government is still failing to understand the country’s supply chains, say logistics operators, or recognise their anxiety as more Brexit regulations loom.

It’s one of the labour shortfalls that has emerged partly because of border friction following Brexit.

The Unite Trade Union claims the UK Government has showed “sheer incompetence" after a freedom of information request revealed that no monitoring of the extent of cabotage occuring in the country has taken place.

Households will be particularly hard hit at start of next year and into spring.

Grant Shapps has announced policy aimed at foreign lorry drivers to help ease supply chain problems.

‘It’s entirely Brexit,’ says haulier who has been caught up in 15km queues.

“We drive 44-tonne killing machines. We are professionals, and in Europe we are treated like professionals, but in the UK we aren’t.”