Dialling up the Brexit despair

AS if we needed more bad Brexit news, now our phone bills are set to soar once we travel North or across the Irish Sea in the wake of a hard Brexit.

This is another consequence crashing out of the EU.

This turnabout in consumer rights is manna from heaven for the money-grabbing phone firms as punters will have to cough up for big roaming fees every time they cross the border.

Consumer advocates reckon the costly setback looks like it will bring us back to the supposedly by-gone days of rip-off Republic. of Britain