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Brexit: the endgame (Pt 3)

15 August 2019 / Michael Zander KC
Issue: 7853 / Categories: Features , Brexit , Constitutional law , EU
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What happens after a No Deal Brexit? Michael Zander QC reviews the Institute for Government’s assessment

  • After a no-deal Brexit, the UK will have to negotiate with the EU as ‘a third country’ under Art 218 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU.
  • After a no-deal Brexit, the UK would lose all the trade deals it had as a member of the EU except those that had been ‘rolled over’.

The Institute for Government’s Report Preparing Brexit: No Deal says no one can say with certainty what a no-deal Brexit would mean for the UK: ‘The best guess is locked away on secret computers known as “Rosa Terminals” across Whitehall in the classified documents containing the government’s planning assumptions.’ (p14) Some of those assumptions and plans for handling them would turn out to be wrong. But there were some key issues that could be identified.

A quick & easy deal with the EU?

After a no-deal Brexit, the UK will have to negotiate

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