Thread on UK border operating model published today.
The published UK border processes post-January put in mind one of the sillier Brexit reports which claimed WTO customs procedures were less onerous than those within the EU. Possibly also the efforts of the 1980s conservative government to remove such barriers.
Worth recalling this is just goods procedures at the border. Then there are the extra regulatory processes to go through. For services all manner of extra issues starting with rights to work in the EU.
Has any country put up more barriers to trade in the last 40 years than the UK is planning to do on January 1 2021?
And did any country putting up even some of the barriers declare their intention to lead the world in campaigning for free trade?
And did any country putting up even some of the barriers declare their intention to lead the world in campaigning for free trade?
