Trade

New Tory chair claims we can use Brexit to establish free ports. Except we already can as EU members. They’re not even a clever idea.

Johnson’s column shows fundamental misunderstanding of intricacies of moon landing, not surprising given his understanding of Brexit.

Manx kipper tale is easy to debunk. But Isle of Man is also good example of why Brexit Britain will end up following EU rules without say.

Varadkar says there could be checks at ports on whole island of Ireland if UK crashes out. It’s not just Brexiters who believe in fantasy.

Three years in and Brexit has little tangible to offer beyond blue passports. But the drawbacks are already happening and will get worse.

As EU builds better economic opportunities for citizens with huge trade deal, Johnson and Hunt compete over crashing out with no deal.

Trade secretary used to trot out dogma we’ll do just fine trading on WTO terms. But it’s too weak to protect against world trade bullies.

After Brexit we’d lose EU protections from poor-quality food. In a desperate no-deal scenario Brexiters can cut unappetising deal with Trump.

Look past trivialities of US president’s visit. On policy, UK’s values and goals are much closer to our European allies.

UK tackling climate change is futile unless we can bring other countries with us. Being in EU gives us a big head start.

We’d be stuck with Irish backstop, goods wouldn’t flow freely, services would be thwacked and we’d be turned into trade eunuchs.

White House is against UK-EU customs union, Congress won’t sign off deal without one. Brexiters’ transatlantic trade dream is going nowhere.