Less than a third of the British public have “looked for information on how to prepare for Brexit”, it adds. Britain’s exit from the EU – taking Northern Ireland with it – risks a return to a hard or policed border. Q&A What is a customs union? Proponents of an independent UK trade policy outside the EU customs union say Britain must forge its own deals if it is to take advantage of the world’s fastest-growing economies. However they have never explained why Germany manages to export more than three times the value in goods to China than Britain does, while also being in the EU customs union.

Source: The Guardian October 07, 2019 11:43 UTC