Talk’s Julia Hartley-Brewer is joined by director of the Centre For Migration And Prosperity Steven Woolfe, who says people are “exasperated” and “exhausted” by the Government’s failure to deal with immigration.
The Government has no clear timetable to fully implement its post-Brexit border controls with the EU, the National Audit Office (NAO) said on Monday.
The UK has said it hopes to have the “world’s most effective border” by 2025, but the NAO said the strategy “lacks a clear timetable and an integrated cross-government delivery plan”, with individual departments responsible for implementing different aspects.
It also said that repeated changes to and deferrals of the plan to introduce full import controls have led to uncertainty for businesses and extra costs for government and ports.
The public spending watchdog said that since the transition period concluded at the end of 2020, the Government has delayed its plans five times and spent money on infrastructure and staff that were ultimately not needed.
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19 май 2024
