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Roads in Kent were quiet on New Year’s Day as fears of huge lorry queues on the county’s trade arteries failed to materialise. The first ferries sailed in and out of the port of Dover uneventfully following the UK’s departure from the single market at 11pm on Thursday. Meanwhile, around 300 trucks had passed through the Eurotunnel at Folkestone since the end of the Brexit transition period. Many hauliers were expected to stay away from the borders in the first days of 2021, not wanting to be the first to test the new customs controls. A ferry heads for France after leaving the Port of D...

2021/01/01 18:26 People watch the first truck, from Estonia, entering the Eurotunnel terminal Friday, Jan.1, 2021 in Coquelles, northern France. Eleven months after Br... People watch the first truck, from Estonia, entering the Eurotunnel terminal Friday, Jan.1, 2021 in Coquelles, northern France. Eleven months after Britain's formal departure from the EU, Brexit becomes a fact of daily life on Friday, once a transition period ends and the U.K. fully leaves the world's most powerful trading bloc. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, Pool) Lories disembark from the...

Leaving the European Union’s trading arrangements offers the chance to “transform our country”, Boris Johnson claimed as UK businesses adjusted to the new bureaucracy. There was little sign of disruption at the border as freight travelled to France and Ireland on a quiet bank holiday after the new arrangements came in at 11pm on New Year’s Eve. The Prime Minister said leaving the single market and customs union meant the UK has “taken back control of our money, our laws and our waters”. Lower trade volumes on the New Year’s Day bank holiday meant there was little disruption from...

A new era has dawned in the United Kingdom, which has turned its back on a 48-year liaison with the European project for an uncertain post-Brexit future. The UK left the EU’s vast single market for people, goods and services at 23:00 GMT, midnight in Brussels, on Thursday, New Year’s Eve, as the Brexit transition period expired 11 months after the country formally left the bloc on January 31. New Year’s Day newspapers reflected the historic but still deeply divisive change, which will have repercussions for generations to come. The pro-Brexit Daily Express’s front-page photograph show...

Leaving the European Union’s trading arrangements offers the chance to “transform our country”, Boris Johnson claimed as UK businesses adjusted to the new bureaucracy. There was little sign of disruption at the border as freight travelled to France and Ireland on a quiet bank holiday after the new arrangements came in at 11pm on New Year’s Eve. The Prime Minister said leaving the single market and customs union meant the UK has “taken back control of our money, our laws and our waters”. Lower trade volumes on the New Year’s Day bank holiday meant there was little disruption from...