Brexit food control post at Portsmouth ‘may have to be demolished’, says port director

Exclusive: £25m hi-tech facility at terminal had been called ‘white elephant’ even before latest EU deal scrapping some health and veterinary checksA £25m post-Brexit border control post in Portsmouth may have to be demolished if the UK government’s deal with the EU removes the need for health and veterinary checks on food imports, according to the port’s director.Mike Sellers had already spoken out last year about how more than half of the site would never be used because planned checks on EU food and plant products had been pared back since it was designed, leading to the building being called a “white elephant”. Continue reading...

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