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How will Brexit Affect You?
HM Revenue and Customs have produced a very useful questionnaire to advise how Brexit will affect you and your business from 1st January 2021. To complete the questionnaire and receive their recommendations go to: https://www.gov.uk/transition-check/questions
EU trade talks aim for ‘tangible progress’ by June
The UK and and EU negotiators have agreed to stage three further rounds of talks on a post-Brexit trade deal. David Frost, the UK's chief negotiator, and the European Commission's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, discussed progress via video conference. The new...
Firms ‘won’t be ready for EU customs exit’
Businesses fear big hold-ups at the docks when the UK leaves the EU customs area because of untrained staff. The British Chambers of Commerce says the government has not invested enough in training for companies faced with new customs paperwork to fill in. Ministers...
IMF head warns on Brexit trade deal failure
The IMF has suggested the UK and the EU should not "add to uncertainty" from coronavirus by refusing to extend the period to negotiate a post-Brexit trade deal. Managing director Kristalina Georgieva, when asked what she thought about the prospect of no trade deal...
Post Brexit Talks Continuing
Post-Brexit trade talks are continuing with the EU “in these difficult times”, according to the UK’s chief negotiator. David Frost said he and his EU counterpart, Michel Barnier, would decide a timetable for further discussions in April and May. Opposition parties...
Delay Brexit deadline amid coronavirus, say MEPs
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been urged by a group of MEPs to delay his Brexit deadline as countries around the world battle the coronavirus. The European Parliament’s largest group of MEPs said the pandemic puts pressure on the chance of securing a trade deal by...
Brexit Trade talks to go ahead
Talks between the UK and the EU on a post-Brexit trade deal will go ahead as planned next week, despite the chief negotiator on each side being diagnosed with coronavirus. The UK's negotiator David Frost and his EU counterpart Michel Barnier are in self-isolation...
UK’s chief Brexit negotiator self-isolating
David Frost, the United Kingdom's chief negotiator in post-Brexit trade talks, is self-isolating after showing symptoms of coronavirus. This comes a day after Michel Barnier, the European Union's lead negotiator, announced he had tested positive. David Frost, 55, is...
Brexit talks delayed
Brexit talks delayed due to coronavirus The latest set of Brexit talks will be delayed due to coronavirus. A UK government spokesperson has said: “We will not formally be convening negotiating work strands tomorrow in the way we did in the previous round." They said...
Ignore Whinging European Commission
Former Brexit Secretary David Davis has told Chancellor Rishi Sunak to ignore the "whinging" European Commission - and deliver a Brexit which gets Britain "match-fit" for Brexit. Writing on the Politics Home website, Mr Davis said of Mr Sunak, who replaced Sajid Javid...
Barnier in frantic race to publish key legal text
EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has admitted the bloc is scrambling to put together a legal text in advance of next week's crunch talks after it was revealed UK negotiators were ahead of the game. Meanwhile UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has issued a stern...
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