The boss of a Cheshire cheese firm has told of his despair over Brexit after an unexpected meeting with the environment minister resulted in advice to look at the US and Canada markets. He says the past three months have been among the worst in his career, with a lucrative EU business brought to a halt because of the extra costs and paperwork caused by a hard Brexit. Back home, he has been offered help from the Department for International Trade with “emerging markets” but says what he wanted was help with salvaging his EU business. Data released on Monday showed a dramatic collapse of exports of whisky, cheese and chocolate to the EU in January. But Spurrell said while they were trying to help he saw no way of salvaging his consumer sales business in the EU.

Source: The Guardian March 27, 2021 08:37 UTC