The UK will splurge £700million in just a few months on setting up new bureaucracy at our border after Brexit. New infrastructure, staff and technology will be rushed into being in time for January after a trade deal with the EU began to look increasingly unlikely.
Britain and Brussels have now passed the deadline to extend the "transition period" - meaning EU rules will end in the UK on December 31, come what may.
But on Friday Downing Street warned there are still "significant differences" between the two sides despite talks ramping up through July and August.
That could mean a flood of new checks and security measures are needed at goods coming in through key ports like Dover, Kent.
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