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Political Correspondent for @bbcnews. No relation to Larry. Got a tip or a story to share? DMs are open or you can email me here: Helen.catt@bbc.co.uk
Oct 29, 2018 17 tweets 6 min read
1)A #brexit thread on 'frictionless' trade:

@bbcsoutheast decided to see how easy/difficult it would be to export an item from #Switzerland 🇨🇭(outside the EU) to the UK🇬🇧(inside the EU) to get an idea of what British businesses might have to do after #Brexit. 2) It’s obviously not an exact analogy. Switzerland is in the #singlemarket for many goods and in #Schengen, for example. But it’s outside the customs union, so the idea was to get a sense of what friction might need to be tackled.