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As part of our special edition looking at five years since the EU referendum, Alastair Campbell looks at the silence of the Leavers.
Liam Fox’s Brexit ‘prize’ is nothing more than a pipe dream that fails to address Britain’s long-standing productivity problem
11/02/2022
The recent report from Fox’s Global Britain Commission sets out Britain’s productivity problem but offers no answers to it.
Wanting to forge new trading relationships after Brexit and securing them are two very different things.
Nothing to see here - Chris Grey
19/06/2020
'The Brexiters have no more idea in private than they do in public about what they are doing. Predictions based upon their concealed intent project on to them a competence they simply don’t possess.'
"Only way you can get frictionless trade is to actually be in the Single Market" - Liam Fox
01/07/2019
“I’ve always argued that the only way you can get frictionless trade is to actually be in the Single Market.”
Boris Johnson’s ‘implementation period’ and five other Tory leadership Brexit plans already rejected or doomed to fail
25/06/2019
What are the Brexit proposals put forward - and why will they probably be rejected?
An NHS sell-off, lower food standards and secretive corporate courts: the battles facing Britain's new trade secretary
26/07/2019
Boris Johnson’s new trade secretary will be tasked with negotiating as many new trade deals as possible. Here are some fault-lines expected to emerge over the coming months.
London (CNN)Three turbulent years after 17 million British people voted to leave the European Union, Brexit has grown from a quaint word to an ugly cloud hanging over the nation.
Northern Ireland, food prices, the ease of a deal - it turns out that many of the claims made by those advocating Brexit were not quite true...
Final bid to prevent huge new tariffs ruining African farmers amid allegations of UK ‘bullying’
05/12/2020
‘People in Ghana are very angry. They do not understand why Britain is acting like a bully’
Tory leadership hopeful is wrong to suggest UK could have tariff-free trade with the EU following a no-deal Brexit, says international body’s chief.
Ministers accused of pressure on developing nations to 'sign up blind’ – without knowing if rollover deals will prove to be second-rate.
Trade minister rejected Boris Johnson’s claim exporters would be spared tariffs after no deal
"Farage, Banks and Bannon. They are some of the well-known Bad Boys of Brexit. But there are many more. The Bad Boys of Brexit are an unholy alliance. They are global Money Men, small-state Regulation Burners and people with highly questionable Russian Connections, some of whom have undermined the very foundations of democracy."
The US has outlined its objectives for a post-Brexit trade deal with the UK, demanding greater access to the food markets where products such as chlorinated chicken or hormone-fed beef are currently banned under EU rules.
Britain has received demands to roll back its human rights standards in exchange for progress on post-Brexit trade deals, including from some countries that ministers are pushing to secure agreements with.
Canada Is Refusing To Roll Over Its EU Trade Agreement For The UK If There's A No-Deal Brexit
02/07/2019
The decision not to “roll over” the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) if the UK abandons its withdrawal agreement with Brussels is a huge blow to Britain's hopes of maintaining continuity in a no-deal Brexit and could severely impact businesses that sell goods to the Canadian market.
British businesses fear the move could ruin their industries.
No-deal Brexit could see import tariffs slashed to zero under ‘extraordinarily damaging’ government plan
05/02/2019
Proposal branded ‘ultimate betrayal’ – because it would unilaterally open up UK markets to cheaper goods from across the world.
Pascal Lamy, who was director general of the WTO, between 2005 and 2013, said there was a stark choice for the UK between 'minor' and 'great' trade relations with the country’s largest trading partner.
But cabinet colleague Greg Clark said government must "defend" industries from foreign competition.
Brexit trade deals will be worse than current EU deals, says Liam Fox's former trade chief
24/03/2019
Countries are likely to offer the United Kingdom worse trade deals than it currently enjoys as a member of the European Union, the former head of Liam Fox's International Trade Department has told Business Insider.