The hot rhetoric of ‘taking back control’ of our borders is being replaced by cold reality.

Three years ago, on 31 January 2020, the British flags that had flown outside European Union buildings for over 40 years were lowered. The then prime minister Boris Johnson had “got Brexit done.” Except he hadn’t.

In rejecting EU funding programmes, Britain has jeopardised research and made itself far less attractive to overseas scientists.

An island nation must trade with its nearest mainland, whatever our new Brexit opportunities minister claims.

DAN WHITE gives a personal account of how Brexit is already impacting the disabled.

Without free trade with the EU, British health services are set to face grave challenges throughout the second wave of coronavirus and beyond.

Everyone is fishing in the same pond. Stocks built up in readiness for Brexit are having to be replenished. If another pandemic strikes, we’ll hardly be in the best position to get through it.

A US-UK trade deal is being negotiated, and drug prices are a key issue. Several US officials are demanding that foreign countries pay higher prices to US drug companies.

A no-deal Brexit will be grim for patients. Yet gagging orders are being used to keep the truth from coming out.

The government’s ‘serious shortage protocols’ are a real danger to the British public’s health – and may be illegal.

Criminals selling counterfeit drugs prey on the vulnerable. The threat of no deal may make anxious patients turn to them.

... the most hard-core Brexiters cannot articulate a deal that they prefer and has the slightest prospect of winning EU approval. Supporters of Brexit made incredible promises that had no basis in reality. / This matters greatly to Japan. Britain is the gateway to Europe for many Japanese companies. / Failure to reach a deal with the EU, for whatever reason, would be a disaster for the U.K.