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New rules and standards on EU trade will make the first set of Brexit measures pale into insignificance.
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) predicts that, although the UK economy will almost fully bounce back from the pandemic, it's economy and eventually the jobs market will suffer for decades due to Brexit.
Boris Johnson chronically confuses culture and economics of affair called Brexit.
While Brexit continues to deliver more empty shelves for consumers, more carnage to our food and fishing sectors and more chaos to the people of Northern Ireland, the eternal sunshine of our international trade secretary’s spotless mind continues to deliver more doses of what seems like good news for faithful Leavers.
On trade, finance, migration, food standards and more, the UK suffers fresh ignominy on a daily basis.
Half a decade after the referendum, the economic hit to the UK caused by Brexit is becoming clearer. But it will be years before the true impact is understood
In the months since the Brexit transition period ended, trade flows at British borders have plummeted and border checks have been deemed so unworkable that their implementation has been pushed back by a year. Dire figures and delays point to the fact there is far more to free trade than tariffs...
An article written by Peter Hardwick from the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) explains that the declining level of red meat exports between the UK and EU illustrates the new-found trade friction between the blocs.
We knew leaving the EU would weaken us. Now we can see it will limit the ability of the government to rein in big tech.
WHAT was a simple one-step process of exporting meat to France in December is now a resource-draining 23-step marathon.
Meanwhile, in the real world, we have seen a catastrophic slump, by 41%, of all our exports to the Continent. / Trade between Welsh ports and Ireland (which remains in the single market) has seen a decline of 50% in Holyhead, and 40% in Pembrokeshire.
Trade has plummeted and red tape has blocked our borders. Is that what ‘protecting our sovereignty’ meant?
As we pass 60 days of Brexit entering the final month of the first quarter of 2021, let’s take a deeper look at the impact of Brexit on UK businesses and especially e-commerce businesses. Before authoring this article, I had numerous conversations with independent e-commerce business founders. I have based this article on those discussions to bring forward first-hand experiences.
Saturday 20 February was the 50th day since Boris Johnson’s Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) came into effect. Anyone expecting it to settle all questions, or even most of the details, of how we will do business with the EU from now on will be mightily disappointed.
The Tories – and much of the media – would have us believe we’re living in Shangri-la.
Brexit as an ideological project has stripped the government of any sense of basic pragmatism.
The political implications of a no deal outcome threaten to be every bit as significant as its economic fallout, Anand Menon and Jonathan Portes write.
As the June extension deadline looms, the prime minister’s priority will be to minimise damage to his personal brand and legacy.
Should the aim be limiting damage or designing a bold future? / Japanese negotiators remain skeptical about the U.K.’s ability to handle multiple FTA negotiations simultaneously / What is evident, however, is that no country wants to conclude a definitive trade deal with the U.K. without knowing the final shape of the EU-U.K. partnership.
Boris Johnson’s team isn’t going to let economic models get in the way of a political revolution.
Boris Johnson’s government is waging a war of words not against the EU but the British people.
Leaving the EU confronts my former colleagues with a greater challenge than Whitehall has faced for generations.
As our prime minister and the no-deal zealots of his cabinet revel in Brexit brinkmanship it is worth recalling the legal realities of what threatens to be our post Halloween world.
But it won’t be straightforward to go it alone, and politicians should carefully, and candidly, set out the actual benefits of an independent trade policy.