The cost of Brexit is rising rapidly – and still no one can explain why we’re doing it

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The cost of Brexit is now becoming apparent.

Customs clearances are apparently going to cost business £7 billion a year.

50,000 new Customs staff are going to cost at least £3 billion a year in my estimate.

On top of that there is the cost of the Northern Ireland border.

Call it £11 billion, or near enough the amount it was claimed could be given to to NHS as a result of leaving the EU.

And that's before the impact of tariffs - which could be considerable - is taken into account.

Some of us warned of these downsides. We were told it was a price worth paying.

Now we will be paying that price for no net gain to society. All these tasks were previously without direct cost.

And what are we getting in exchange? A reduction in the number of care workers in the UK. Chlorinated chicken, maybe. A shattered country, literally. And economic vulnerability. Can anyone spot anything else?

I wish I could. But I can't. The disaster continues to unfold.


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