A third of businesses still believe the #Brexit transition period will be extended says @cabinetofficeuk perm sec - this has always been big issue with preps: however good they are, they must be communicated effectively to business /1

ft.com/content/7dedbc…
@cabinetofficeuk And the fact that a third of businesses still think there will be an extension just shows you how hard that is - some are just busy with #COVID19 others as Chisolm says just don't believe warnings any more after all the false starts/2
@cabinetofficeuk And as we've seen with trying to get industry to hire and train customs agents, the govt/whitehall can't operate in a vacuum.

No good just launching a £50m grant scheme without trying to understand industry views of risk & appetite to hire during #COVID19 times /3
@cabinetofficeuk Adam Marshall @BCCAdam of British Chambers always says that it takes a year for business to even hear of a new idea, a year to taken on board new requirements and then one or two more to implement and adjust. We have less than 100 days to #Brexit /4
@cabinetofficeuk @BCCAdam Of course Government does need to be ready itself to give biz a fighting chance...but with less than 100 days to go the exporting customs interface Goods Vehicle Movement System is still not rolled out! France had built & tested its "SI Brexit" ro-ro system by last year. /5
@cabinetofficeuk @BCCAdam The govt will do best to manage flows; show flex and it has given itself until July to make it happen for imports (and who would bet against further extensions) - note that many up-country inspection parks don't yet have planning permission! /6
@cabinetofficeuk @BCCAdam I am not actually a total doomster. There will be disruption, but not total chaos as suspect in a deal both sides will do quite a lot to make it work...In a 'no deal'?...well, all bets are off. Especially if @BorisJohnson puts those UKIM clauses into law. We need a deal. ENDS

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@jochenpierk shows that UK business international collaborations via the program DOWN by nearly 50% - while other EU nations are UP - my latest via @ft /2

ft.com/content/ed2e50…
@ben_osswald @jochenpierk @FT You can read the whole paper here, but below is a key chart for what they found on business collaborations - UK had 15,900 international research partners in Europe in 2016...that figure had fallen to 8,300 by 2019 /2

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
@ben_osswald @jochenpierk @FT At the same time - see raw data table below - collaboration of the three major advanced EU economies (France, Germany, Italy) all went up by between a third and a quarter. /3
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So. End of another long #brexit trade negotiations week...which ended in more stalemate over fish and LPF/subsidies...but it is subsidies where it's really fundamentally stuck, it seems. And that's important, because the 'state aid' row is really a proxy #Brexit as a whole 1/
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promised on 2019 election trail. So does that matter? 1/thread

ft.com/content/4fa473…
@BorisJohnson First the letter (that was first reported by @faisalislam) which tl;dr says "we asked for preferential terms, the EU said no"....

This relates particularly to so-called 'rules of origin' - the need for a car to be 45% UK-made to get 0-tariff access to EU under an FTA/2
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If you were pessimistic you’d see this as part of the ongoing “pivot to sovereignty” which underpins U.K. approach/3
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🚨🍞🧅🍖🧀🐏🐂🐓🚨Q: are there enough vets to deal with Brexit food exports red tape after Jan 1??? Govt says yes...industry and vets not so sure. My latest via @FT 1/thread
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@FT The government estimates that the number of EHCs could increase from 60,000 now to anywhere from 100,000 to 300,000 - that's a huge spread, and it speak to uncertainty on this issue. /3
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That's optimistic (on substance) but interesting to see UK pushing for a 'tunnel' - and "pitch-rolling" to backbenches 1/

thetimes.co.uk/article/a-brex…
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