Thread by @adampayne26

The @Foodanddrinkfed's Ian Wright tells the Brexit committee: one well-prepared, major company said that a UK to EU export which before January 1 took 3 hrs, took *5 days*

"The enforcers are as clueless of the provisions of the deal as those operating under it," he tells MPs

Wright says UK-EU border disruption "will get worse" because freight traffic is currently so low

Currently around 2,000 lorries are crossing the short straits but usually it's 10,000, he tells the Brexit committee

The 50k customs agents target...

Make UK's Stephen Phipson says the number was around 12k the last time he checked, businesses finding it "extremely difficult" to find them

Wright: the shortage isn't the only issue - those the UK has have never worked at this intensity before

Perhaps the stand-out line in this morning’s @CommonsFREU session on post-Brexit border disruption:

“We are going to see the re-engineering of almost all EU-UK and GB-NI supply chains over the next 6 to 9 months,” @Foodanddrinkfed’s Ian Wright told MPs politicshome.com/news/article/f…

• Exports that once took a few hrs are now taking *nearly a week*
• NI faces “significant disruption” in April if grace periods aren’t replaced long-term fixes
• UK still has a major customs agent shortage & those they have aren’t used to this intensity politicshome.com/news/article/f…