Depends when the deal is voted on - it it's Feb 2019 then there's literally no time for anything other than grabbing our collective ankles.
The only transition on offer is EU membership without any say - I expect that DD and May will piss time away yet again before capitulating, which will leave basically no time at all for the trade framework, but given that this can't be negotiated until we're out that's not going to change a whole lot.
I expect we'll see our team burning what little good-will, negotiating capital and advantage we have remaining to us in order to arrive (in a year) at exactly the same position that we could accept in January.
Good job we hold all the cards, really, or this would be a total disaster.
Depends when the deal is voted on - it it's Feb 2019 then there's literally no time for anything other than grabbing our collective ankles.
The only transition on offer is EU membership without any say - I expect that DD and May will piss time away yet again before capitulating, which will leave basically no time at all for the trade framework, but given that this can't be negotiated until we're out that's not going to change a whole lot.
I expect we'll see our team burning what little good-will, negotiating capital and advantage we have remaining to us in order to arrive (in a year) at exactly the same position that we could accept in January.
Good job we hold all the cards, really, or this would be a total disaster.