Brexit: Business leader’s letter to PM unanswered as Army ‘ready to help tackle food shortages’
He said: “The real issue is the complete lack of strategic planning. From our perspective, there has been none whatsoever.”
The UK is the first and so far only country to have left the EU and Brexit was and is the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom). The official withdrawal was at 23:00 31 January 2020 GMT (00:00 CET).
He said: “The real issue is the complete lack of strategic planning. From our perspective, there has been none whatsoever.”
But around 2,000 military drivers are set to attempt replacing a huge shortage of 100,000 lorry drivers, previously made up mainly of Eastern Europeans.
"It's not like we're some extremist zealots," its leader has insisted.
"Costs continue to increase, and still the Brexit deniers want to pretend this what they voted for," he said.
"We were the gateway to Europe, but now there's no point. Unless it’s going to terminate in the UK, what’s the point in bringing it here?"
David Cameron reportedly supported EU plans to charge visitors €7 on entry to the bloc.
"Steve, I bring terrible news. It’s your Brexit. It’s your ‘fiasco’. You were at the epicentre of the policy-making elite who pushed it through, without scrutiny, in the harshest terms possible," Sue Perkins tweeted.
"If both cities play it right Lon-Dam could be one of the great financial centres of the 21st century," a Telegraph columnist reckons.
The government admitted this was “not the desired outcome”, but will not extend the deadline for the shift to UK safety rules, arguing the new checks are a matter of sovereignty.
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