Exclusive: Labour condemns ‘denial and bluster’ of government’s Brexit response as red tape bites 1/ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
In a letter from @RachelReevesMP to Michael Gove seen by Bloomberg, Labour says the government seems to have ‘no plan’ to deal with problems firms face from new bureaucracy 2/
Reeves is particularly critical on customs agent capacity - industry said it needed 50,000, but thinks only 12,000 were trained. And funds to train more have run out.. 3/ bloomberg.com/amp/news/artic…
This is an issue Reeves raised regularly in the run up to Brexit 4/
https://twitter.com/joe_mayes/status/1326828123690774528
Many small businesses (and indeed, some large ones) are struggling to find agents to do their Brexit customs clearances, which is halting trade 5/ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The solution is obviously for the private sector to scale up - but if there isn’t the pool of talent to do the work, what do you do? Of course, some outsourcing helps, but demand is still outpacing supply.. 6/ bloomberg.com/amp/news/artic…
And the thing is we’re only experiencing *half* of the Brexit customs work now. Full import controls on goods entering U.K. from EU starts on July 1, so that’s another red tape mountain looming.. 7/
And here’s the letter ends/ bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 
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