Labour calls for more customs agents to cope with Brexit red tape

Michael Gove told numbers trained falls far short of 50,000 promised last yearThe government must quadruple the number of customs agents in the UK to ensure businesses struggling with mountains of Brexit red tape do not “buckle” under the strain, Labour has said in a letter to Michael Gove.The shadow chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster, Rachel Reeves, put it to Gove that industry figures showing that only 12,000 customs agents have been trained fell far short of the 50,000 the government accepted last February would be necessary to cope with Brexit. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/22/labour-calls-for-more-customs-agents-to-cope-with-brexit-red-tape #brexit #european_union #uk_news #europe #foreign_policy #politics #rachel_reeves #hmrc #michael_gove