A key negotiator in the Brexit negotiations for the European Union has told LBC 'red tape' brought about by the UK's departure is causing 'huge problems' for both parties.
will benefit from “frictionless” trade in future, as he predicted more free trade agreements would come about.: “That’s not the reality on the ground. The reality on the ground is there are huge problems for the European Union and for the British economy and the British industry.
“It has been a stupid thing, I think, to cut yourself off from your main market [the single market] and to have all this red tape and import duties as we see today. He went on: “What happened with Brexit…those who sold Brexit during the referendum said ‘no, no, we will not go out of the single market’ and then once the results were in, they changed completely and become extremists of Brexit."The UK's departure from the European Union was thrust back into the limelight after the Labour leader Keir Starmer told a conference in Canada his government "would not diverge from the EU".
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