Brexiteers’ bid for no-deal free trade is a unicorn that belongs on a red bus
Brexiteers have seized on this as the ultimate in cake-ism. Who needs a deal? We can trade with the EU tariff free for a decade! What’s not to like about that? Except it’s “complete nonsense”, according to trade expert Sam Lowe, of the Centre for European Reform. “It sounds tech-y and convincing and it’s being used by the Brexiteers to try to sanitise a no-deal,” he says.