UK reliance on EU food imports is a major risk if the country crashes out of the union. / Walk into any British supermarket and you will be surrounded by European products, from Italian cheeses to French wines. Around 30% of all food consumed in the UK is imported from the EU, but for some foods, such as spinach and olives, the EU is practically the UK’s sole supplier.

Boris Johnson, the front-runner to be Britain’s next prime minister, has raised the prospect of a shock for the world’s fifth-biggest economy by pledging to leave the European Union on Oct. 31 without a transition deal if necessary.

It may be time for the UK to consider the possibility the German car industry might not be riding to the rescue.

This article is going to try and explain lots of different things which all form part of the ‘what’s going on right now’ picture.

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'It is hard to predict how full Brexit would play out, because this scale of multiple simultaneous renegotiations of global trade agreements is unprecedented – and no country has ever left the EU. It certainly can’t be assumed that Britain is bound to get quick and good deals because it is a large economy.'

EU and UK negotiators reach a new Brexit agreement that would avoid a hard border.

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This means the UK would immediately leave the European Union (EU) with no agreement about the "divorce" process.

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The European Union has promised legal action after the British government unilaterally extended a grace period for checks on food imports to Northern Ireland, a move that Brussels said breached the terms of London’s EU divorce deal.

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We examine the impact of the Brexit plans under discussion between the EU and UK.