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A think-tank has warned that an extension to the Brexit bill could cost the UK an eye-watering £378billion, as the country increases planning for no-deal after trade talks with the EU stalled last week.
We left the EU in January of this year, in principle but not in practice. The UK remains tied to the EU via a transition period during which we must apply EU rules and pay our way without any say. Ironically the EU has been so preoccupied with the Corona crisis that they have not had time to cause mischief, so far.
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.
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Press Release: Delaying Brexit could cost UK £400 billion and torpedo Covid recovery plan, warns cross-party think tank
by OfficeAn 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.