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People living in the Red Wall seats of the Midlands and the North that fell to the Conservatives in the 2019 election have strongly backed the Government’s decision to rule out any extension of the end-of-year deadline for Britain to complete its exit from the European Union, according to a new opinion poll.

Conservative voters are overwhelmingly opposed to any extension of the transition period leading to Britain’s final break with the European Union at the end of the year, according to the first opinion poll to explore in detail public attitudes to Brexit in the wake of the coronavirus emergency.

An extension of British membership of the European Union beyond the end of this year would be an act of madness that would cost the country up to £1 trillion and torpedo efforts to recover from the Covid-19 emergency, according to a major new report from a newly formed cross-party think-tank.

The coronavirus crisis is likely to transform the Brexit negotiating framework, according to a newly formed Brexit think-tank. Its experts say, as the crisis tightens its grip on the European economies