News / Port fury over 'wasted' £100m as UK drops SPS deadline for 'a new approach'

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Furious port operators are threatening legal action after the UK government’s decision to delay indefinitely, or scrap, phytosanitary checks, the final post-Brexit border control policy.

They claim the move puts UK exporters at a competitive disadvantage.

Minister for Brexit opportunities and government efficiency Jacob Rees-Mogg announced yesterday that phytosanitary import controls on EU goods, due for July, would now not be introduced, citing rising costs to UK consumers which he put down to Russia’s war with Ukraine.

“We will publish a target operating ...