M&S chair attacks ‘pointless’ post-Brexit rules for Northern Ireland

Archie Norman backs UK plans to scrap parts of protocol, saying lorries require ‘700 pages of documents partly written in Latin’

, exporting to Ireland now took 30% more driver time and required the employment of 13 vets in Motherwell, Scotland, to oversee the required checks and paperwork, costing M&S an additional £30m. “It’s very onerous,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

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