‘It was a nightmare. It still is’: the cost of doing business, eight years after Brexit

Peter Walker, his wife Helleentje and Billy the rescue lurcher at Wack's Wicked Plants in Scampston, near Malton, North Yorkshire. Photograph: Richard Saker/The Observer

Exactly eight years ago, the UK went to the polls and voted to leave the EU.

Ending a union that had begun in 1973, the decision was bound to have a profound impact on businesses both in the UK and on the continent.