Tuesday, 5 July 2022

Portsmouth’s £25m border post stands empty after minister’s imports U-turn

Estimated £550m of taxpayers’ money has been spent on facilities to handle post-Brexit checks, now delayed Next to the container terminal at Portsmouth International Port, just a few hundred metres from the water’s edge, stands a new hi-tech border control post. Built over the past 18 months at a cost of £25m, a cost shared by the taxpayer and the port’s owner, Portsmouth city council, the high-specification facility should be in its inaugural week of use, handling post-Brexit checks on imports of animal, plant and forestry products arriving from the EU. Continue reading...
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