Tag: Brexit

British businesses are being encouraged by government trade advisers to set up separate companies inside the EU to dodge new charges.

Simon Spurrell said he would now have to switch a large part of his business to France.

A wine wholesaler who imports two million bottles a year said Brexit bureaucracy would add up to £1.50 to the price of a £12 bottle of wine.

The fact the article says they're still calling it Festival UK, or FUK, doesn't show amazing attention to detail.

“It’s just been an absolute nightmare,” Ian Perkes told BylineTV. “If I could turn the clock back, would I have voted Leave? Of course not."

Delivery company DPD reportedly asked one shopper to cough up £77 in tax and extra charges to release £245 of clothes purchased from a French website.

'A lorry load of potato crisps was held up for two days because the haulier couldn’t prove the potatoes from which the crisps had been manufactured had not been imported into the UK from somewhere else. This is ridiculous.”

"Following the Brexit Referendum, The European Medicine Agency left my borough of Tower Hamlets. Along with the EMA’s departure went 900 jobs undertaken by highly qualified personnel and 40,000 business visits. "

“Through Brexit alone, we’ve lost them as customers. We physically can’t send oysters to them anymore because of the costs involved with that paperwork. It’s so impactful on what we do.”