Brexit Briefing: The Best Deal?
Brexit has turned into Hard Brexit or No Deal Brexit. What happened to 'the best deal for Britain'? Why is David Davis allowed to decide that we to leave the customs union and the single market? Did every voter in the referendum know the difference between the customs union and the single market and did they take their studious views as a basis for our future trading relations with Europe? Does it not seem unarguable that if we put between us and the biggest free market in the world new tariffs, new regulatory barriers, new customs procedures, certificates of origin etc we are bound to be weakening the economic position from what it would otherwise have been? Why are we going backwards? Why are we allowing ourselves to be so distracted by Brexit to the exclusion of what needs to be done for the future? The NHS, schools, the workplace, communities, the retired, the young, the old, all are affected by this backward looking nonsense that is...