GB suppliers deciding that trading in NI is now ‘too much hassle’

Lorries driving off the European Highlander P&O ferry at the Port of Larne. Picture date: Monday February 15, 2021.

A leading food services company has expressed concern that GB suppliers are deciding that trading in Northern Ireland is not worth the hassle of extra Brexit bureaucracy.

Andrew Lynas, managing director of Coleraine-based Lynas Foodservice, told MPs that buying mozzarella cheese from one of his long-standing suppliers in England now requires eight separate processes under the Northern Ireland Protocol.