UK Seeks to Ease Inflation Hit From Planned Brexit Border Checks
- Some in government worries trade friction will fan food prices
- Sunak grapples with stubborn inflation amid pledge to halve it
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The UK is weighing options to blunt the cost of post-Brexit border checks on European food imports due to start in January over fears they could exacerbate the country’s inflation problem.
Rishi Sunak’s government has in recent weeks been studying the potential impact of the measures, which include physical examinations and extra paperwork and are set to be phased-in from October, people familiar with the discussions said. The controls will add to costs for importers that may then be passed onto consumers, even as the Bank of England struggles to get stubbornly high inflation under control.