Archive: Customs Union

If this is all the government has for its Brexit white paper, we're in trouble

The Brexit white paper is full of muddled thinking, desperation and fantasy. It is alarming that this is all they've got.

PCS: Union backs public accounts report on revenue and customs

PCS: Union backs public accounts report on revenue and customs - politics.co.uk
PCS: Union anger over more revenue and customs office closures

PCS: Union anger over more revenue and customs office closures
PCS: Union anger over revenue and customs office closures

PCS: Union anger over revenue and customs office closures - politics.co.uk
Business as usual for customs in transition period

“UK and European Union business will welcome the continuity proposed in today’s agreement"

We are now on cruise control for soft Brexit

The Chequers statement sets a new baseline expectation for Brexit - one which is looking softer every day.
This is why May's third-way Brexit compromise doesn't work

May's third-way compromise policy on post-Brexit relationship with the EU is insane

The Brexit compromise is coming - prepare yourself for the cry of treachery

The end of Brexit negotiation stages can be viewed in the not-too-distant horizon
Week in Review: Airbus horror story ruins May's no-deal victory

Airbus' Brexit risk assessment is a horror story in multiple parts, each worse than the next.

Week in Review: Was this the week Brexit fell apart?

A week in which a series of body blows left Brexit reeling.
Let's be honest: There are no new Brexit ideas to save us

There is another idea wheeling down the Brexit railway and it's as terrible as you might expect.

Week in Review: Govt kills customs unicorns, magics up some new ones

The customs partnership and max-fac models are dead, but David Davis has invented some new unicorns to solve the Irish border problem
Week in Review: Customs union fight approaches its climax

The customs union is a small part of the Brexit debacle, but people have wrongly begun to talk as if it somehow solves the Irish border problem.

What one piece of Jacob Rees-Mogg nonsense tells us about Brexit tactics

A story about how Jacob Rees-Mogg's nonsense can travel halfway around the world before the fact-checkers have got their boots on.
This is what free movement means to me

The UK's membership of the EU meant I could study in the Nethernalds at a fraction of the price charged to students from outside the bloc.

Week in Review: Total Brexit stalemate

Theresa May has reached an impasse in the Cabinet on the customs union.
Lords vote: No place left for Corbyn to hide

The House of Lords defeated the government by 245 votes to 218 and demanded that Britain stays in the single market.

Bicker all you want about a customs partnership - it's impossible either way

Theresa May is calling a 'War Cabinet' to hammer out a customs solution. But despite the noise, all these options have already been rejected by Brussels.
No.10's threat of a no-confidence vote on the customs union is constitutional nonsense

The threat to potential Tory rebels is clear: vote for a customs union and you're voting to topple the government.

Week in Review: Crunch-point is coming for the customs union

The government is caught in a four-way pincer movement on the customs union, each part of which gains confidence from the resilience of the others.
Disaster road: The Brexit Irish border plan and why it won't work

David Davis is going to throw everything at this and he's going to fail anyway.

From the horse's mouth: Freight leaders issue warning about hard Brexit

Freight workers warn of prospect of permanent gridlock unless UK government quickly gets a grip on Brexit.
Just-in-time: The production system Brexit is set to sabotage

Time is running out for the UK to support just-in-time

Week in Review: Why are we leaving the customs union again?

Leaving the customs union involves an awful lot of pain and absolutely no gain
The government's customs union plan is an absolute dog's breakfast

After a year of preparation, the Brexit department's offering on the customs union is a mess of unrealistic expectations and untested IT solutions.