New post-Brexit IT system brings lorries importing goods to UK to a halt
"Companies are already having trouble with the system,” one reporter said.
The UK is the first and so far only country to have left the EU and Brexit was and is the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom). The official withdrawal was at 23:00 31 January 2020 GMT (00:00 CET).
"Companies are already having trouble with the system,” one reporter said.
"So Gillian Keegan doesn’t know how many have left but can absolutely guarantee all the vacancies have been filled... how does that work?" one person asked.
"Johnson thinks it is great that pint glasses now have a royal crown again. Hopefully this grand achievement will comfort all those Brits in the pub, drowning their sorrow at the stupidity of their own government."
Despite not seeming keen to cut VAT as per the Leave campaign promise, he took the opportunity to say this week that leaving the EU means the UK can now set its own VAT rates.
“Making Brexit work is painstaking work, and slogans won't cut it," the Labour leader said.
Even the "most ardent Brexiteers are beginning to reluctantly concede that life outside the EU has yet to live up to its billing".
“Looking forward to Frost ‘getting Covid done’ and then resigning from the group,” a Lib Dem Councillor has said.
“What worries me is the casual political vandalism. They really don’t seem to care," Tony Blair's former chief negotiator on Northern Ireland has said.
Despite prime minister Boris Johnson promising in March last year to solve the bureaucratic issues facing musicians, only one European country has signed an agreement since.
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