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The EU's ambassador to the UK, Joao Vale de Almeida, has described the problems being faced by British seafood producers exporting to the EU as evidence that decisions have consequences".

Speaking at an event hosted by the Bright Blue thinktank, De Almeida said that he hoped exporters would adapt to the new arrangements, but that extra checks were inevitable now that the UK was out of the single market and the customs union. He said:

I like to say that decisions have consequences in the sense that the choice made by the United Kingdom - to leave the European Union first and then to leave the single market and the customs union, the sort of Brexit that you voted for - has consequences.

One of them is that there has to be checks and controls at our borders, there is no way out of that.