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What are the chances on a Scottish referendum with a result of 52:48 for independence in the next few years?
Another question. Which is more likely to be intact in 5 or 10 years time, the EU or the UK? Then consider what that tells us about the pressures to reach a deal, particularly as EU Member States know their role in negotiations...
The interests of the Scotland and Northern Ireland devolved governments will be rather different in negotiations with the EU to those of the UK government. Current strategy of the UK government seems to be to ignore this. Brave.
More on Scotland's approach to future UK trade deals including with the EU... news.gov.scot/news/protectin…
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Moving to the trade phase of Brexit mean many of the 'boring' things I worked on for years suddenly become news. Today, Mutual Recognition Agreements. These allow imports to the EU of certain goods to be certified safe in other countries.
Turkey and EEA countries are treated differently according to their relationships with the EU, veterinary agreements for foods are separate, so EU Mutual Recognition Agreements cover certain industrial products with seven other countries ec.europa.eu/growth/single-…
EU Mutual Recognition Agreements are typically important for pharmaceuticals (Good Manufacturing Practice inspections) and machinery. Only a couple cover cars. Many other products don't require third party testing to be placed on the EU market.
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We might be making progress. This paragraph is broadly correct (although questions remain as to why we would want to diverge in areas of global regulation like aircraft or car safety)
This paragraph is not correct though despite being the new Brexiteer mantra. The Single Market has multiple identities (recall all those Brexit supporting businesses proclaiming it didn't really exist in their area), and there's no global trend away from (or towards) EU approach
And it is the detail that business needs to see, of what is meant by alignment and what barriers to trade will therefore exist, as per @AllieRenison and IoD survey out this morning theguardian.com/politics/2020/…
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The UK Government does not have realistic objectives for trade deals or really know why it wants them, and potential trade partners are in turn unsure as to how much they should be pointing this out or whether to start in the expectation of confusion later thesun.co.uk/news/10775218/…
Example - in one of the leaked reports of progress on informal US trade talks UK officials reported happily that they'd been told by US counterparts we were doing better than they expected. US unofficial message at the time "we've come to kick their butts to get ready"
A full US trade deal means a few minor market access concessions for the UK in the US, and the UK making significant changes to our approach to food safety and technical regulations (probably with NHS excluded). Still controversial. Worthwhile?
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