Brexit: ‘the biggest disaster any government has ever negotiated’

Exclusive: British cheesemaker says Brexit and subsequent trade deals have cost his firm 270,000

A British cheesemaker who predicted Brexit would cost him hundreds of thousands of pounds in exports has called the UK's departure from the EU single market a disaster, after losing his entire wholesale and retail business in the bloc over the past year. Simon Spurrell, the co-founder of the Cheshire Cheese Company, said personal advice from a government minister to pursue non-EU markets to compensate for his losses had proved to be an expensive joke".

It turns out our greatest competitor on the planet is the UK government because every time they do a fantastic deal, they kick us out of that market - starting with the Brexit deal," he said.