UK spent £100m on zombie Brexit border inspection posts
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Key context: <p>Five of seven facilities in England and Wales never reached operational stage as Tories vacillated over plans to check goods</p><p>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.</p><p>The overall cost of Brexit was put at an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/20/britain-brexit-border-checks-eu-cost-uk-firms-470m-a-year-says-watchdog">estimated £4.7bn</a> 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.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/nov/08/uk-zombie-brexit-border-inspection-posts-check-goods">Continue reading...</a> This development from The Guardian highlights ongoing changes in the sector.
Five of seven facilities in England and Wales never reached operational stage as Tories vacillated over plans to check goodsThe 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...
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