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‘Still £5.4m of council debt’: Portsmouth’s unused Brexit border control post

The £25m port facility was built to fit government plans but stands empty while new border strategy is delayed

As white elephants go, few come larger than £25m. That is the cost of the hi-tech border control post, built to government specifications to handle post-Brexit checks on goods entering the UK, that sits near the waterfront at Portsmouth international port.

The building has sat empty and unused for almost a year since its completion, after the UK government announced in April last year that the introduction of post-Brexit import checks would be delayed for a fourth time.

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