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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.
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.
While businesses struggle with the red tape of no-deal planning, ministers are busy with commemorative coins.
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...
Inflation is rising, worker shortages are grinding us down and consumers are hurting, but No.10 is introducing measures which will make the situation worse
“Car crash!” exclaimed managing director Andrew Varga, whose Brexit progress I have been following since the referendum. News of the latest Brexit U-turn landed on him on Tuesday out of the blue. All his years of preparation for a new UK product safety mark, all his thousands of pounds wasted, all the uncountable hours and effort were rendered pointless, at a stroke.
As the years have rolled on, the enormous disadvantages of leaving the European Union have been there for all to see but the supposed benefits touted by those who brought us Brexit have remained entirely conspicuous by their absence.
It is increasingly clear that Brexit is doing enormous damage to Britain’s economy. And for what, exactly?
The cost of new regulations means we’ve had to pause sales to the EU, losses are mounting and the government isn’t listening.
A year on from leaving the EU, it’s time for an annual report on how Brexit has worked out for Wales.
Leaving the EU confronts my former colleagues with a greater challenge than Whitehall has faced for generations.
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.
It has been a gloomy week on the sunlit uplands of sovereign Britain, as the only export that appears to be booming post-Brexit is the glut of UK companies rushing to set up in the EU.
The ‘remoaner elite’, the civil service, the BBC, universities, unions, refugees: anything is blamed but Brexit itself.
Upbeat messages about the opportunities Brexit will provide are not the way to persuade companies that they needed to invest significant time and effort in preparing for the new paperwork and bureaucracy that awaits them - and this lack of honesty from ministers risks doing real economic damage.
The technology field will be hurt by the Data Bill and the breakdown of Horizon.
The UK Government's handling of the exit from the EU has been an "unmitigated disaster" with little cause for optimism, writes Record View. / The survey of 1000 businesses by the British Chamber of Commerce on the impact of Brexit makes grim reading.