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UK spent £100m on zombie Brexit border inspection posts
UK NewsPoliticsBusiness•November 8, 2026 at 1:32 PMNational

UK spent £100m on zombie Brexit border inspection posts

By Lisa O’Carroll and Joanna Partridge•The Guardian - UK News

Five of seven facilities in England and Wales never reached operational stage as Tories vacillated over plans to check goodsThe 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. Continue reading...

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.

Continue reading...

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