The government ignored concerns that we wouldn't be ready to end the transition period on 31st December, despite numerous warnings from business and trade bodies. And now this.
This email proves that those concerns were valid, and the senior Cabinet minister trusted with Britain's future trade shares them.
The Department for International Trade must now publish this email and any follow up correspondence so that the British public aren't kept in the dark about what's happening at our borders
The four areas mentioned are a potential legal challenge from the World Trade Organisation, increased smuggling from the EU, tariffs being applied by "default" to all goods imported into Northern Ireland and undermining the UK's international trade policy.
