To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Dutch officials were filmed laughing while confiscating a British lorry driver’s ham sandwiches due to post-Brexit import rules. A clip on TV in the Netherlands shows border staff taking lunch and other foods from truckers while joking: ‘Welcome to Brexit, sir.’ The driver is heard in the background, pleading: ‘Can you take the meat and leave me the bread?’ The EU forbids meat, meat products, milk or dairy products to be brought in from countries outside the union for ‘personal consumption’. Now the UK has left the EU, this means lorry drivers crossing the Channel will now mostly...
Full ArticleDutch officials say ‘welcome to Brexit’ as they take driver’s ham sandwich
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