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The slow, rocky road to a modest EU-UK deal
Sam Lowe of the Centre for European Reform think-tank puts it succinctly: “A free trade agreement does not negate the fact that the UK will be moving from a highly integrated relationship with the EU to one in which trading between the two becomes significantly more difficult.”