Government has realised that implementing Brexit fully will further hit consumers in the pocket. So once again, the government has postponed border controls.
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Ministers announced as recently as April that a new “border target operating model” would start to be rolled out from October 31 with a full regime in place by October 2024.
But government insiders have told the Financial Times that while final details of the border plan would be published “very soon”, its implementation on the ground would be pushed back.
“The driving force behind this is the need to bear down on inflation, that’s why there will be a delay,” said one government insider briefed on the plan. “There will be additional costs at the border.”..
Nick von Westenholz, director of trade at the National Farmers Union, acknowledged that the government needed to protect consumers from price rises, but said that yet another delay would exasperate many farmers, who face barriers for their exports which are not being reciprocated on imports from the EU.
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https://www.ft.com/content/d0673acb-...f-009be5ab14c3
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Originally Posted by ianch99
I think you won that one  |
Hands down! Sorry Seph.