UK spent £100m on zombie Brexit border inspection posts
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Five of seven facilities in England and Wales never reached operational stage as Tories vacillated over plans to check goods The UK wasted at least £100m in taxpayers’ money to set up zombie Brexit border inspection posts that were never used, it has been revealed. The overall cost of Brexit was put at an estimated £4.7bn by the National Audit Office last year but this included years-long transformation of the software used for customs declarations and other systems built to cope with the UK leaving the single market. Continue reading...
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