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Five reasons why the EU will make life impossible for Theresa May after Brexit – and five reasons why it should think again
As Simon Tilford, deputy director at the Centre for European Reform notes, on average, EU states send 8 per cent of their exports to Britain, but we send 45 per cent of ours to the EU.