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Some of the UK's biggest supermarkets are limiting sales of tomatoes and other salad items.
What is the single market and why does it matter in talks about Brexit?
With negotiations between the UK and the European Union (EU) - over a trade agreement - going down to the wire, the possibility of there being no deal is being talked about.
Most of the fishing that takes place close to the west coast of Scotland is for shellfish, and most of the catch is exported to Europe.
There's been a lot of talk about free trade in the Brexit debate, but what exactly is a free trade agreement and how does it differ from what the UK has had with the EU?
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.
MPs will soon table amendments to the Brexit legislation and Labour said it wants to include plans for a customs union arrangement.
EU and UK negotiators reach a new Brexit agreement that would avoid a hard border.
Theresa May's Brexit deal has been defeated by MPs and the UK is creeping closer to leaving the EU without a deal. But how does a no-deal Brexit actually affect you?
Why do so many people talk about a 'hard Brexit' and a 'soft Brexit'? And what do they mean?
As the British government continues to debate the kind of customs relationship it wants with the European Union after Brexit, one question looms large: how will it solve the Irish border problem?
Professor Michael Dougan from the EU Law @ Liverpool team explains what the single market is, and why leaving it would leaving will present enormous challenges to the UK economy.
'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.'
If not, and the vote is to exit, it will be no good saying afterwards that “we didn’t understand what we were voting for” – the repeated complaint made by eurosceptics about the 1975 Referendum. By then it will be too late.
The four freedoms govern the movement of goods, persons, services and capital with-in the EU. They are the cornerstones of the Single Market and the common currency.Many citizens see them as the greatest achievement of the European unification project.