In this Bloomberg game you get to decide how to survive as a northern England manufacturer whose sales form part of the £300 billion of exports that go to the EU from Britain each year. Now the U.K. has left the bloc, will you still be able to deliver?
It’s late October and you’ve just heard some very good news. The U.K. has signed a free-trade agreement with the EU! It was looking pretty gloomy and fractious, but the negotiators pulled it out the bag. Boris Johnson is doing his victory lap and lauding a great new partnership between Britain and Europe. It’s now less than three months until the Brexit transition period ends. You hear a government radio advert advising you to check new trading procedures with the EU. I’ll check Why bother? We have a free-trade deal