Five of seven facilities in England and Wales never reached operational stage as Tories vacillated over plans to check goods
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.
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.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/nov/08/uk-zombie-brexit-border-inspection-posts-check-goods
Author : Lisa O’Carroll and Joanna Partridge
Publish date : 2026-11-08 13:32:00
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