Trade policy
UK to delay start of health and safety checks on EU imports – report
New post-Brexit border checks ‘set to zero’ to avoid what Defra calls risk of serious disruption
Charlie Moloney
18, Apr, 2024 @9:30 PM
Garden centres in UK stockpile plants before new Brexit checks
British growers and sellers fear government measures starting on 30 April could result in delays and plants being damaged
Jack Simpson
17, Apr, 2024 @5:00 AM
New Brexit checks will cause food shortages in UK, importers warn
Rules due to come in this month will impose new handling fees – and experts say small suppliers are already being driven away
James Tapper and Rachel Keenan
13, Apr, 2024 @1:39 PM
New Brexit checks to cost UK business £2bn and fuel inflation, report finds
Additional measures from 30 April for imported animal and plant products could hike costs by 10% in first year, says Allianz Trade
Jack Simpson and Phillip Inman
10, Apr, 2024 @11:01 PM
Foreign Office is ‘elitist and rooted in the past’, says new report
Department ‘all too often operates like a giant private office for the foreign secretary’, paper claims
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
08, Apr, 2024 @5:00 AM
‘Our profits could disappear’: small UK businesses hit out at new import fees
Post-Brexit charges of up to £145 may lead to a reduced range of goods available for consumers
Jack Simpson
04, Apr, 2024 @5:29 PM
‘It was built for 80 vehicles. We’re expecting six’: the big Brexit border posts that may never be fully used
At Portsmouth and other sites, rule changes have left port operators with new, expensive and now partly redundant facilities
Jack Simpson
30, Mar, 2024 @8:00 AM
Dover health authority says inland border facility will be ‘open door for disease’
Sevington site was never designed to handle volume of imports envisaged by post-Brexit changes due in April, port’s health chief warns
Jack Simpson
27, Mar, 2024 @6:41 PM
UK and India put free trade deal talks on ice until later this year
Latest round of negotiations end without breakthrough and talks will not resume until after India’s election campaign
Eleni Courea Political correspondent
15, Mar, 2024 @9:00 PM
Diane Abbott says it is ‘frightening’ to hear what Tory donor Frank Hester said about her – as it happened
Hackney MP says she feels more vulnerable after Tory donor said looking at her makes you ‘want to hate all black women’
Andrew Sparrow
12, Mar, 2024 @5:54 PM
Not a sausage: how latest post-Brexit checks have hit UK delis
One company selling German products has not had a single delivery of wurst since January
Jack Simpson
09, Mar, 2024 @7:00 AM
UK negotiators fly to India in last-ditch effort to seal free-trade deal
Exclusive: Team will try to resolve goods and services issues amid fears Delhi is holding out for a Labour government
Eleni Courea Political correspondent
05, Mar, 2024 @5:01 AM
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