With reliance on EU products returning to pre-Brexit levels, closer supplier ties will be essential to managing uncertainty in the market, writes Pablo Cristi Worm.

“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.

Brexit and its devastating impact on supply chains, especially for food, is what sets the UK apart from every other country.

The UK’S membership of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership offers little gain for the British economy.

This reshuffle will make little difference: the country is going nowhere as the PM leads us further down an economic dead end.

If Britain ends up in the recession expected by the Bank of England, public anger will be looking for an outlet. / I asked Albrecht Ritschl, professor of economic history at the LSE, what single move the UK government could make to alleviate the pain. “Suspend Brexit for 20 years.”

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

Dear Reader, please look away now if you cannot bear any more about the negative effects flowing from the 2016 Referendum decision to withdraw from the European Union.

Amid the petrol crisis and labour shortages, hardline MPs continue to celebrate the damage Britain has inflicted on itself.

Ministers are saying “this won’t be as bad as the winter of discontent”. I dread to think what they’ll promise next.

They know that Brexit lies at the heart of what is happening, and that what’s happening must therefore be ignored.

The latest Government Business Insights report reveals that the transportation and storage sector has been hit hardest by Covid and Brexit. / ParcelHero says the shock result shows that more supply chain companies have closed and fewer surviving firms are currently trading than in any other sector.

The scandals surrounding Boris Johnson hide the disaster that Brexit has created.

We need to aggressively pursue one of the few opportunities Brexit presents by expanding our reach into the EU market.

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

Nobody ever said that a no-deal Brexit would badly affect our ability to deal with the global outbreak of a viral illness. Well, apart from the British Medical Association in 2018. And the Faculty of Public Health, in 2016 before the referendum was held.

The political implications of a no deal outcome threaten to be every bit as significant as its economic fallout, Anand Menon and Jonathan Portes write.

Without a deal, the country’s departure from the European Union will be a disaster.