Trade

Beyond short-term issues like stockpiling medicine, going it alone at the WTO brings a whole host of complex, long-term drawbacks.

The 26-page outline agreed by May and EU is much worse than our current deal with EU. And it’s so vague we don’t know how bad it is yet.

Most attention has focused on the miserable 585-page divorce deal. But the document setting out the future is a flimsy vague piece of paper.

Accepting May’s Brexit means years of wrangling over trade and foreign policy. If public want to focus on important issues, they can say so.

Car plants powering down, heart drug trials halted, plans for power cuts and road chaos. Just a few recent Brexit realities.

Brexiters’ latest ruse is that a Canada-style trade deal can save Brexit. This is as dishonest as their crumbling Leave campaign.

With only six months to go before we are supposed to quit the EU, Johnson’s six-point plan for a “better Brexit” is full of holes.

Such a mega u-turn could tear the UK apart and damage the economy. But PM’s position is so desperate that the scenario can’t be ruled out.

We’d be turning our back on strong trade links with EU and EU’s trading partners to go it alone as world trade system is under assault.

Rees-Mogg’s plan still means border checks and infrastructure, and turns blind eye to smuggling. EU would reject it outright.

This is just first of dozens of deals we need to keep trading globally as we do now in EU. Brexit will make building Africa trade harder.

Nick Hart spells out how the shambolic Brexit talks are stifling investment - and how crashing out would put his 12-person company at risk.