UK resists calls for Brexit transition extension despite Covid-19 crisis
Sam Lowe, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform (CER) think-tank and a committee member of the UK Trade Forum, pointed out in January that even if a free trade deal was agreed in time, that would still likely result in the immediate introduction of new barriers to trade.Lowe tells GTR this week that is still the case “but now with business already on its knees”.