Three and a half years after voting for Brexit, Britain is leaving the EU.
“After Jan. 31, the government will take the line that Brexit is done and what remains to be done is a sort of technical exercise,” said Sir Simon Fraser, a former permanent secretary, the most senior civil servant, at the Foreign Office and a former chief of staff to the European trade commissioner.
The British government has suggested that an agreement can be sealed without submitting to the so-called level playing field, whereby E.U. member states and trading partners share the same rules on environment, labor laws, tax and state aid, designed to ensure fair competition. E.U. and Union flags are held aloft by a demonstrator outside the Houses of Parliament in an anti-Brexit protest in March 2017.told the Financial Times
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