UK spent £100m on zombie Brexit border inspection posts

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The UK spent at least £100 million on Brexit border inspection facilities, five of seven in England and Wales never becoming operational. The spending adds to wider costs associated with adapting customs and border systems after leaving the EU single market.

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...