Whisper it … an EU-UK deal is there to be done
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As Sam Lowe, senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, has pointed out, the UK accepts that leaving the EU’s single market and customs union means more autonomy but also more barriers to trade. There is none of the cognitive dissonance of the early May era, when the UK wanted to “have its cake and eat it.”
“Beyond the headline issues the two parties aren’t so far apart,” Lowe said.