Designers and architects in the UK are suffering in the wake of Brexit, with companies abandoning exports and setting up offices in the EU to avoid losing clients.

Our Economics Correspondent @HeliaEbrahimi explains how no-deal Brexit preparations are impacting the UK economy.

Less than a month after leaving the EU, trade is flowing so badly that small firms are moving operations abroad to survive.

Belgium’s ambassador to the UK, Bruno van der Pluijm, has urged British business to consider his country as its post-Brexit gateway to the EU.

Bosses face tough decisions and politicians are refusing to listen, says a Bristol business owner. / Small and medium-sized businesses, the lifeblood of communities, have told of difficult decisions to quit Britain or cancel investment plans because of Brexit.

'We are not the envy of the world anymore, we are the crackpot aunty in the corner that everyone laughs at.'

Before Brexit, the owner of Cheshire Cheese Co was planning to invest £1 million and dozens of jobs in a Northern town. Because of Boris’ Brexit deal, he’ll be investing in France instead. So much for a ‘Brexit boom’.

Dublin has been crowned the most desirable place for City jobs, as 135 firms have relocated business to the Irish capital due to Brexit, new research has revealed.

Both Dublin and Luxembourg continue to be the most popular destinations for office and staff relocations, as well as new European hubs

According to figures released by Flanders Investment and Trade 81 companies have invested in Flanders rather than in the UK since the United Kingdom left the European Union. Above all companies involved in transport and logistics, sales and marketing, telecommunications and electronics and chemicals have been opting to make investments here rather than in the UK.

Eighty-four per cent of fintech firms that planned to partly relocate UK operations to the European Union after Brexit ultimately enacted those plans by 2023; according to researchers at Anglia Ruskin University.

Europe’s biggest repo trading venue is moving to Amsterdam. / BrokerTec is the first company to relocate an entire market.

A major North West manufacturer with a plant in Hungary says it will now reduce its UK operations and invest in EU facilities after what it described as a "lack of clarity and preparedness" following Brexit.

'Don't listen to the Brexiteers' madness which asserts that 'because we have huge plants here we will not move and we will always be here' - they are wrong'

They are one of the biggest employers in Wales, but chief executive Tom Enders said the handling of Brexit was 'a disgrace' and urged people not to listen to 'Brexiteers' madness'

Fishing tackle and equipment retailer Angling Direct announced on Wednesday that its new European distribution centre was now fully operational, and shipping to customers across the European Union.

About 300 jobs have been put at risk after a manufacturing firm announced plans to move production from the UK to Europe. / SKF has revealed plans to shut its plant in Luton and relocate manufacturing to its facility in Poznan in Poland.

More than 40 licenses were issued in 2018 to businesses moving to Amsterdam from London due to Britain's departure from the European Union, the Dutch financial markets regulator said on Thursday.

AGE was established in Paris in mid-2019 to prepare for the impact of Brexit on AGUK, which had previously been the entity writing Assured Guaranty’s business in Europe.

More than 440 firms in banking and finance have moved or are moving part of their business, staff, assets or legal entities from the UK to the EU, and 48 of them have come to Amsterdam, according to research by British think-tank New Financial.

The music merchandise specialist says the move will help alleviate the significant trade issues created by Brexit.

Are banking jobs moving out of London because of Brexit? An updated report from thinktank New Financial suggests they are: New Financial says 332 financial services firms have already moved jobs out of London because of Brexit, up from 60 last time they looked in March.

Bank of America has spent around $400m on preparing for Brexit, which has seen the bank move some operations from London to Dublin and Paris.