What did Brexit do for travel? You may not enjoy finding out

Expensive travel and passport check delays – just some of the things travellers can blame on Brexit, writes Simon Calder

Blue-sky thinking: The UK voted to make travel to locations across the EU, including Santorini, much more difficult and expensive (Simon Calder)

What were you doing on 23 June 2016? Perhaps, like me, voting in the EU referendum.

Seven years ago, the world changed overnight for UK travellers. The consequences are still unravelling.

The most immediate – and lasting – impact was to push up costs for British travellers abroad. When the “Leave” result came in, sterling immediately slumped as international financial markets anticipated the economic damage caused by Brexit.