UK ‘ready for any eventuality’ over EU trade deal negotiations – Johnson

Boris Johnson has insisted the UK will ‘prosper mightily’ regardless of the outcome of EU trade deal negotiations after haulage bosses warned of ‘significant gaps’ in border preparations (Andrew Fox/Daily Telegraph/PA)

British prime minister Boris Johnson has insisted the UK will “prosper mightily” regardless of the outcome of EU trade deal negotiations after haulage bosses warned of “significant gaps” in border preparations.

Eight logistics organisations, including the Road Haulage Association (RHA), have written to Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove to highlight their concerns that the UK-EU supply chain “will be severely disrupted” next year if issues are not resolved before the end of the Brexit transition period.