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New Brexit Rules Set to Increase UK Food Prices

Geoff Riley

25th January 2024

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One of the costs of the UK leaving the EU single market will become glaringly apparent in the weeks and months ahead. New post-Brexit border rules are predicted to push up the cost of importing fruit and vegetables from the EU by £200 million a year.

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Financial Times: UK faces post-Brexit border disruption at end of January, Labour says

ITV: Fruit and veg prices predicted to rise in UK when new post-Brexit controls bite

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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