EU trade partners demand concessions for Brexit transition rollover
Samuel Lowe, a trade researcher at the Centre for European Reform, said that Britain would need to ask for the EU’s help to get all trade partners on board for the transitional plan. “The UK is simply not powerful enough to make such demands on its own,” he said. If Brussels was going to assist London in convincing trade partners, this would come at a cost, he said: “This gives the EU some good leverage.”