‘Same nightmare week after week’: UK firms fed up with post-Brexit EU trade

Exporters fear Northern Ireland protocol row will spur trade war with Brussels, making an already difficult job even harder

Mark Brearley is still frustrated by Brexit. More than a year from Britain's formal withdrawal from the EU, on terms agreed by Boris Johnson's government, exporting the goods his company produces hasn't got any easier for the London-based manufacturer.

Describing it as the same nightmare week after week", he says: A lot more time is spent with things going wrong. The EU really feels like the hardest place in the world to ship things to sometimes."