Despite the trouble at the ports and numerous other challenges, there’s more than enough political will to ensure dealings after Brexit get smoother or at least less pointlessly tetchy 🖊️ annemcelvoy for ipaperviews
Say what you like about the UK’s productivity problems, but there is no shortage of innovation in excuses from the Home Secretary Suella Braverman when it comes to telling us that post-Brexit snafus are due to something entirely different.
Markedly, so has the post-Brexit “arrangement” for entering the EU, which is that the bloc has the right to insist that every passport is individually inspected, leaving coach parties stewing without food and water for hours. With a record set at a 14-hour delay this time, a school trip or pensioners’ jaunt across La Manche now resembles an army survival course.
Sunak’s focus on finding a replacement for the cumbersome Northern Ireland Protocol shows that he is keener on the role of “Mr Fixit” .
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