It is six years after the 2016 EU referendum, and Brexit has been delivered. But all is not necessary well.
Polling conducted by Savanta ComRes in October found that just 36 per cent think the project has been a success, with 52 per cent considering it a failure.
Here are six of the biggest enduring problems Brexit has caused to mark six years since the big vote.
The end of free movement has made it harder and more bureaucratic for seasonal agricultural labourers to visit the UK, so many have cut it out of their annual schedule.
British residents have shown little interest in doing the piecework at UK farms, so thousands of tonnes of crops rotted in fields during the UK’s picking season this year.
Tory MP Roger Gale, who represents the community of Thanet, is among Conservatives to sound the alarm. He told the prime minister in parliament that one grower in his constituency had had to trash hundreds of thousands of pounds of produce.
Ministers say the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Department for Work and Pensions are launching a campaign “to raise awareness of career opportunities” in crop picking among British workers.
But there appears to have been little success so far, with growers cutting output for the coming season for fear they will not be able to harvest what they plant.
Food industry leaders have warned that the situation is almost certain to worsen unless the government urgently extends a pilot scheme which allowed in 30,000 temporary workers this year.
The National Farmers’ Union has called on ministers to allow in at least another 50,000 foreign workers to pick crops, and tens of thousands more to process them.
Britain is regarded as an “outlier” in the financial world for its particular high inflation, with analysts blaming Brexit.
While the cost of living crisis has many causes, only in Britain are price increases so severe. The ONS on Wednesday confirmed annual inflation is now at a record 9.1 per cent.
Citigroup, Bank of America and Standard Bank are among US financial institutions to warn this week that UK inflation will be higher for years to come due to immigration controls and supply chain shortages.
“Inflation in the UK will be stickier over the medium to long-term because of Brexit,” said Vasileios Gkionakis, head of European FX strategy at Citigroup.
A report from the London School of Economics released in April found that new trade barriers have driven a 6 per cent increase in UK food prices – one of the contributing factors of surging inflation.
The UK fishing industry said the Brexit deal was a betrayal
New bureaucracy introduced by Brexiteers has hurt the UK’s fishing industry, with some long-running firms forced to close due to the extra costs leaving the EU has imposed.
The situation is particularly difficult for exporters of shellfish who face not only new paperwork and catch certificates, but delays at the border that can spoil and entire time-sensitive consignment.
Boris Johnson has blamed exporters for not filling in forms correctly. Some shellfish exports to the EU are also now banned completely.
Fishing chiefs described the Brexit deal as a “betrayal” which failed to secure many promised benefits.
Inflation is at its highest rate for four decades (Dominic Lipinski/PA)
Airport travellers have face extended disruption and long queues
