UK spent £100m on zombie Brexit border inspection posts
- The UK wasted at least £100m in taxpayers’ money to set up zombie Brexit border inspection posts that were never used, it has been revealed.
- The overall cost of Brexit was put at an estimated £4.7bn by the National Audit Office last year but this included years-long transformation of the software used for customs declarations and other systems built to cope with the UK leaving the single market.
- Now fresh information from HMRC on the exact spend on the seven “inland border facilities” has come to light.
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- The UK wasted at least £100m in taxpayers’ money to set up zombie Brexit border inspection posts that were never used, it has been revealed.
- The overall cost of Brexit was put at an estimated £4.7bn by the National Audit Office last year but this included years-long transformation of the software used for customs declarations and other systems built to cope with the UK leaving the single market.
- Now fresh information from HMRC on the exact spend on the seven “inland border facilities” has come to light.
Sources: Guardian