Brexit shock washes up on Britain’s shores
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The impact is already being felt. Goods arriving into Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK now require checks and delays have risen at the port of Dover.
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New tariffs, bureaucracy and quotas are disrupting life in the UK. The pain has only just begun.
The shrinking of Britain may even become physical and political. A Scottish referendum is now increasingly likely. There is a sense of exhaustion and fatigue among Britons.
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NEW YORK :
Routes to France closed. Stay home. So said the large sign in Kent in late-December, warning trucks as they slowed down, lining up and forming queues on their way to Dover, carrying British products headed for Europe. The ostensible reason was the outbreak of the more virulent form of covid-19 which was spreading across the British Isles. But there was another reason too, long foretold Brexit.