News / Whitehall is 'hanging the UK logistics industry out to dry' on the road to Brexit

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An ‘angry’ UK freight industry has lashed out at the government, accusing it of being reckless and “playing chicken with crucial parts of the British economy”.

In a strongly worded statement, the Freight Transport Association said its confidence that the government could deliver a frictionless Brexit was “fast collapsing”.

At the start of the year, the FTA made eight demands in a list of essentials that would enable the UK to keep trading after Brexit.

“Not a single one has been progressed,” said ...