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Narrated by James Marriott
My native corner of Somerset is paying the price of Brexit. For Avon Bulbs, it’s the lost snowdrop market in Germany. Up the road, the Burrow Hill cider-brandy distillery can’t import the old sherry barrels it needs from Spain. The nearby smokery has stopped shipping its succulent eels and fish to the EU. All tell the same story: form-filling and delays that make once-frictionless trade impossibly slow and costly for small companies.
These stories writ large are the theme of a new book by Peter Foster of the Financial Times, What Went Wrong with Brexit: and What We Can Do About It. He highlights the central “red tape” fallacy behind the Leave case: that European bureaucracy was stifling British business and that sovereignty
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