What Have Politicians Got to do with the Price of Fish?

What Have Politicians Got to do with the Price of Fish?

When Ian Perkes, a Brixham fish exporter on England’s south coast, first spoke openly about the toll Brexit had taken on his business, it had only been three weeks since the UK had officially left the European Union on 31 January 2020.During those 21 days, he hadn’t been able to send a single shipment of fish to Europe.He was frustrated with the Conservative Government for not providing exporters with the correct commodity codes, a key part of t…