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British ministers have warned that 7,000 trucks could be held in queues if traders are not ready for Brexit. Photograph: Jason Alden/Bloomberg
North will not be ready for post-Brexit trade checks – watchdog

Northern Ireland will not be ready to conduct checks on certain goods moving between it and Britain from January as required by the Brexit divorce dea(...)

Boris Johnson’s government is seizing on every opportunity for distraction from the Dominic Cummings controversy. Photograph: Andrew Parsons/Downing Street
Johnson wriggles out of Cummings questions with plea to ‘move on’

In the absence of prime minister’s questions because parliament is in recess, Boris Johnson’s appearance before the Commons liaison committee was the (...)

Boris Johnson: to put £138m into new public awareness campaign. Photograph: Simon Dawson/EPA
Brexit: Johnson adds £2.1bn to fund for no-deal preparations
  • UK
  • August 1, 2019, 08:03

The huge cost of a no-deal Brexit was laid bare on Wednesday as the British government announced plans to set aside an extra £2.1bn (€2.3bn) for prepa(...)