From red tape to Rockall: 10 effects of Brexit, one month on
Meat and seafood has been left to rot in ports as shipments have been delayed by reams of paperwork. Supermarket shelves north and south of the border have been bare of certain products. Mechanics can’t get car parts, and supplies of certain bikes to Irish cycle shops have stopped. Even unionists who fought wholeheartedly for Brexit are now grumbling about its effects. The only comfort for the politicians who planned Brexit is that it has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of Covid-19. And they can still cling to the hope that the problems will be ironed out. British ministers put the earl...