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Most of these “truths” are either false or disingenuous.
As an example of the technique used, see “truth” 30 (that “British opera singers, musicians and other performers will still be able to tour the EU”).
Well, of course they can (just as they can tour the US or China). The point is that it will suddenly become much harder for them to do so.
I pointed to the issues here (with a link to an article by the great singer @spconnolly).
That thread looked at the very weak provisions in the political declaration on the final EU/U.K. trade deal: but the issues flagged up would apply in spades on “no deal”.
And underlying all that is the basic point that “WTO rules” have nothing helpful to say about services provision of this kind: so there is a drastic switch from the best trade deal that exists anywhere for the supply of services to (in effect) nothing at all.
The idea that that can be achieved without a significant hit to U.K. services providers is delusional.
And for further analysis of the Lilley 30 points, see
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