‘Prepare for the worst’ EU officials tell business after Sajid Javid’s FT interview.

With negotiations between the UK and the European Union (EU) - over a trade agreement - going down to the wire, the possibility of there being no deal is being talked about.

Businesspeople, academics, journalists and a top trade unionist have formed a group with the purpose of repairing fractured UK-EU relations.

The impact of Brexit on trade, immigration and political economy in new e-book.

Regardless of a deal or no-deal Brexit, the current political uncertainties are challenging the UK's position as the premier location for resolving disputes. Commercial courts have already opened in Paris and Amsterdam, with proceedings conducted entirely in English and expressly aimed at competing with the UK.

Just in case you don't fancy the 1,200+ page document on Boxing Day.

As the UK attempts to join the Lugano Convention, questions are being asked about London's position as a litigation and arbitration centre.

There’s a whole other side of trade. A side of trade that typically doesn’t garner the headlines because its complicated, boring, and much more difficult for politicians to be photographed standing in front of. A side of trade you hear mentioned briefly as important, to much somber nodding of heads, before everyone invariably goes back to arguing about tariffs and containers.

The U.S. wants to move the U.K. away from the EU’s set of trade rules and regulations toward the American one. Farage and Johnson are easy prey.

This is the most chilling explanation of what Brexit will do to the UK economy after December. By @AdamPosen, President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

“Frictionless EU trade and regulatory alignment is vital for UK prosperity and jobs. The deal remains inadequate on services, which make up 80% of the UK economy. And big questions remain about the feasibility of negotiating a new trade agreement deep enough in a 14-month transition period."

Trade has plummeted and red tape has blocked our borders. Is that what ‘protecting our sovereignty’ meant?

Taxes cut on birds’ eggs, raw hides, fur skins and ultra-strong spirits – but UK does not export them anyway.

Income per-head forecast to fall by 6 per cent – just 2 per cent less than under a no-deal departure.

At the end of long and intense negotiations, this briefing aims to bring clarity to the new relationship and how universities in the European Union and the United Kingdom can continue to cooperate.

There's been a lot of talk about free trade in the Brexit debate, but what exactly is a free trade agreement and how does it differ from what the UK has had with the EU?

On 15 October, the Council adopted decisions on the signature of two agreements between the EU and Singapore: a free trade agreement, an investment protection agreement.

UK firms warn that even with a trade deal, both sides need to phase-in changes to border checks over six months.

Ex-EU ambassador says PM’s ‘strategy errors’ will make good trade deal harder to achieve.

Carolyn Fairbairn of CBI says her ‘really big disappointment’ was the lack of help for British services in the potential deal

What is the single market and why does it matter in talks about Brexit?

Despite calls to 'take back control' the economic reality is that tariffs will be determined by the 'bound rates' that the UK already has in place under the WTO and, ultimately, no tariff regime will make up for loss of access to the EU market