It has been four and a half years in the making; a period characterised by animosity, division and unprecedented political drama. When Brexit day finally arrived, however, the only real victim was a consignment of Belgian strawberries.
Despite apocalyptic visions of traffic chaos at British ports, HGVs flowed freely to and from Dover and the Channel Tunnel as the new UK-EU trading relationship was put to the test.
A solitary truckload of strawberries from Belgium appeared to be the first, and seemingly only, casualty of the dreaded red tape that threatened to bring UK trade to its knees.
First lorries cross new customs border with UK
Michal Perdion, a Polish driver, was forced to endure a lengthy wait at a customs clearance centre in Dover after arriving into the UK without the
