Why is UK business following Jeremy Corbyn’s line of Brexit?...
Labour leader and business groups like CBI are failing to oppose or highlight Brexit damage, instead hiding behind “no to no deal” slogan.
Technology will not allow UK to escape the ‘backstop’
Even cutting-edge innovation like Blockchain won’t solve the Irish border problem. The problem isn’t just technological, it’s criminal.
Leaving Euratom could wreak nuclear havoc
But staying in the treaty would undermine the government’s Brexit strategy, and force acceptance of a role for the ECJ.
Can post-Brexit drugs deal lead to cocktail of compromises?
Call from ministers to cooperate with EU on medicines points to possibilities for similar compromises on regulation, trade, even migration.
What the EU just did for you
Removing EU mobile roaming charges is a real boon to citizens. It also shows what the single market can achieve – and Brexit may cost us.
Services without a smile
Brexit clouds hang over UK’s vast service sector. From airlines to architects, Britain counts regulatory cost of life outside the EU.
Brexit may force exit of UK chemicals business
Uncertainty over EU single-market chemicals rules poses major threat to UK’s no. 2 export industry, new parliamentary report warns.
Brexit could put the lights out
A Commons committee has raised the possibility of power cuts. It is another example of the unintended consequences of Brexit.
Brexiters’ obsession with red tape could hurt us badly
If hardliners persuade PM to promise bonfire of red tape, we’ll struggle to get trade deal with EU and gain few countervailing benefits.
Theresa May counts Nissan chicks before they hatch
When the Japanese car group said it would build new models at Sunderland, Brexiters were cock-a-hoop. Now it says it may change its mind.
Mail writer wrongly blames EU not Brexit for shrinkflation
Littlejohn thinks metric measures rather than the plunging pound is the cause of “shrinkflation”. The evidence doesn’t back him up.
Brexit promises a nasty chemical reaction
We will either have to copy EU chemical rules, meaning loss of control; or our industry will have to comply with two sets of regulations.