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Theresa May's Brexit plan for access to single market for specific UK sectors 'not on offer', Sir Ivan Rogers tells MPs
22/02/2017
UK's former ambassador to EU said any free trade deal with the bloc would have to be ‘the biggest ever’
The former prime minister accused hardline leave campaigners of ‘shouting down anyone with an opposing view’.
Brexit a ‘nightmare’ for Northern Irish business as MPs vote to remove Irish backstop from deal
30/01/2019
Companies have stopped investing in favour of holding onto cash in case it's needed after the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.
A fruit and vegetable buyer for a major supermarket told James O'Brien the reality of how food supplies and prices would be affected in a no-deal Brexit - and it's not good news.
What happens in the next three months, perhaps even the next couple of weeks, is going to shape the fate of the country for decades. If Brexit goes ahead, in any form, it will enact a profound misreading of the nature of the contemporary political and economic world and represent an unprecedented failure of British statecraft.
We must not force-feed a Brexit no one could have imagined at any cost, our children would never forgive us for such a crime.
Britain leaving the EU could hit least-developed countries hard, with Cambodia most affected, report finds.
(See in particular 9:20m in.)
Jason Hunter is a trade negotiator. He spends a long time trying to explain about WTO rules and Trade Deals to a person holding a WTO Rules sign outside Parliament.
EU could impose punitive tariffs on key British exports such as beef if UK seeks to lower regulatory standards.
Company says move is a precaution in case WTO tariffs apply to EU-UK trade.
Food prices could rise 10%, says Mark Carney
04/12/2018
Food prices could rise between 5% and 10% if there is a disorderly Brexit, the Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, has warned.
This is a video of Michael Gove now telling farmers how no-deal Brexit would utterly, utterly shaft British farming - while New Zealand would get to send the EU a quota of meat tariff-free.
No-deal scenario would disrupt seamless flow of goods and services between Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland.
Anyone who thinks that “we’ll be fine” if the UK crashes out of the EU with a no deal Brexit should watch this video
26/03/2019
Channel 4 economics correspondent describes the consequences of a No Deal exit.
Britain Needs a Brexit Insurance Plan
04/01/2019
Without a deal, the country’s departure from the European Union will be a disaster.
Mark Carney says it's a "myth" that the UK could maintain zero tariffs in a Brexit on WTO rules
03/04/2019
"Forget the fiction... it's absolute nonsense. It needs to be called out."
Donald Tusk has warned a no-deal Brexit is‘more likely than ever.’ But if it happens it could be chaotic.