However, this article seeks to describe, as far as possible, how Brexit has affected the business and regulatory environment across the full range of areas covered by Steptoe and Johnson practices so far, and to identify issues of potential future concern for companies.

While the picture’s hardly pretty and certainly not what advocates of Brexit envisioned, none of it surprises economists. As a former Bank of England official observed: “You run a trade war against yourself, bad things happen.”

Paul Newberry is a consultant aerospace engineer and he’s saddened by Brexit and the loss of opportunity and restriction of freedom it brings to people young and old ... including his son who followed him into the business). It’s bad news for the UK’s future scientists, engineers and innovative industries as a whole.

The former prime minister’s hollow catchphrase captured a fundamental truth—just not the one she thought it did.

Joe Marshall says the government’s latest decision to delay full border checks on EU imports is only storing up problems – and creating news ones.

New checks coming into effect from 1st October look to make food shortages worsen and increase prices.

The London bureau chief for Germany’s public broadcaster reflects on Britain’s government.

Even the keenest Brexiteer must feel that the process has been tortuously long. / That has been, in large part, because successive British governments have refused to accept the trade-off between untrammelled sovereignty and friction-free access to the EU’s single market, a refusal that shapes today’s increasingly testy relationship.

As the EU finally ratifies the Brexit trade deal, attention shifts to some major loose ends.

Richard Barfield explains the deluge of restrictions and regulations that have been saddled on firms after the UK’s departure from the EU

Trade disruption could deliver a sizeable hit to UK manufacturing output this quarter, while lingering uncertainty and potential instability surrounding the future of the UK-EU trade deal will keep a lid on investment during the post-Covid recovery.

Old "Project Fear" scare stories from the 2016 Remain campaign about masses of customs paperwork and increased costs for traders, as well as restrictions on immigration for vital sectors, are becoming reality.

Another Brexit advertising campaign. They've replaced sporting events as signs of the changing seasons. Instead of Wimbledon or the Olympics, we get Michael Gove talking gibberish on television and further millions poured into preparedness exercises for an outcome with no tangible benefits.

On 7 October last year, there was a defining phone call between Boris Johnson and Angel Merkel.

An EU-UK free trade agreement will result in new barriers to trade and border friction even if the UK chooses to unilaterally align itself with EU rules and regulations.

"...rules of origin are how customs authorities classify where an exported product has originated. The rate of duty that importers are required to pay when bringing goods into a country depends on three elements – the type of goods (which is classified by a ‘tariff code’), the country the goods are being imported into, and where they are judged to have ‘originated’ from – i.e. the origin."

In 11 key policy areas, POLITICO reporters look ahead to March 30, 2019.