The government must manage big risks in preparing the UK border for Brexit – but the biggest risk is how little of the customs process it controls. Changing customs arrangements after Brexit is a massive job with a hard deadline. The talk of transition over the summer break indicates that government is starting to grasp the size of the task. But the government is just one of many key players who will all need to be ready to avoid a customs cliff edge. Our latest paper – Implementing Brexit: Customs – explains just how much the UK border relies on private sector organisations in order to function.

Source: The Times September 11, 2017 02:03 UTC