Produced by the Cabinet Office, HM Government  26 February 2019 Summary The Government’s primary aim is to ensure that the UK leaves the EU on 29 March with a negotiated deal which will honour the result of the referendum. However, as a responsible government, it continues to plan for all eventualities, including one in which the UK leaves the EU without a deal. Guidance for businesses and citizens on how to prepare for a no deal scenario can be found on the Government’s Exit guidance website, www.gov.uk/EUExit. Over...

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  Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, announced today that he was prepared to back a second referendum on Brexit. A People’s Vote would give Britons a chance to state their views with far greater knowledge than they had at the time of the 2016 referendum, but the question of what should be on the ballot would itself be highly divisive. Agreeing on the form a referendum should take would do nothing to calm Brexit tensions. Compliments of The...

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By John Bruton, February 10,2019  We seem to be sliding inexorably toward a “No Deal” Brexit. Mrs May’s decision to prioritize a deal with the Brexiteers in her own party, over a possible deal with the Opposition, and the time limits imposed on all of us by Article 50, make a No Deal much more likely than it was a week ago. The EU is a rule based organisation, and it cannot afford to break its own rules if it wants to maintain...

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By Hadas Gold, CNN Business February 4, 2019 London (CNN Business)- Companies in the United Kingdom are spending less and scaling back plans because of Brexit fears that have pushed business confidence to its lowest level in a decade. The dire outlook was revealed Monday in surveys published by Deloitte and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Deloitte found that chief financial officers have adopted their "most defensive strategy stance in nine years." Revenue growth expectations have dropped to their lowest level...

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Mr President, dear Luca Jahier, Dear Members of the European Economic and Social Committee, On 6 July 2017, at the very start of the negotiations with the UK, I had the pleasure of addressing you. At the time, I said that everybody needed to prepare for Brexit. I also said that, given the consequences of Brexit, it would not be business as usual: there can be no frictionless trade outside the Single Market and the Customs Union. And finally, I also said to you...

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