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28 June 2018 / David Greene
Issue: 7799 / Categories: Opinion , Brexit
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Brexit: more than Marmite

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The uncertainty surrounding Brexit goes beyond ‘loving it or hating it’, says David Greene

It would be underplaying the divisions over Brexit to suggest it’s like Marmite: you love or hate it. Brexit gets passions flaming in a way that is relatively unique in the British polity, vide the thousands who turned out for an anti-Brexit demonstration last week. While there are many who still do not think Brexit will happen or that it will happen in name only (coined as ‘BRINO’), as lawyers we search out something concrete, some certainty. One could work on the basis that the government will deliver what it says it will deliver but that remains circumspect, particularly with ministers saying the country is prepared to crash out of the EU next March. Those preparations must be taking place under cover because most would say that the UK seems wholly unprepared for that event, although we are starting to see others, including European industry, making those preparations.

Planning for the worst

I was pleased to join Mary Arden LJ the other evening with the British Japanese Law Association

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