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Beyond Brexit

Beyond Brexit S1E15 - Time to act

Beyond Brexit

PwC UK

Government, News

4.836 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

With less than nine months to go before the UK leaves the European Union all eyes are on the UK government for solutions to the remaining unresolved challenges. How should you prepare for Brexit and what opportunities are there for your business? In this recording of our recent Beyond Brexit - Time to Act live webcast our experts, Andrew Gray, Head of Brexit, Anna Wallace, Director of Political Relations, Phil Brown, Senior Trade Advisor and Julia Onslow-Cole, Head of Global Immigration discuss the latest developments in the negotiations, our latest position on the most likely scenarios for the outcome of the negotiation process, and what businesses need to do now to make sure they are ready for Day 1. Our panel also answers some questions from the audience. Head to www.pwc.co.uk/brexit to find out more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There is now less than nine months to go until the UK leaves the European Union.

0:09.0

Last week, the government published its white paper on the future relationship between the UK and the EU.

0:15.0

And last night, the Brexit Customs Bill was passed in the House of Commons by the narrowest of margins.

0:21.7

When it comes to Brexit, UK politics remains highly divided and uncertain.

0:26.1

Meanwhile, the EU has yet to provide a detailed response to the government's proposals,

0:31.1

but remains keen to get a deal and avoid a Cliffag's Brexit outcome.

0:35.7

Time is short to conclude the negotiations which will take place in the build-up

0:39.6

to the October summit. In this webcast, we will discuss the progress that we think is the

0:44.7

likely scenario for the outcome of the negotiation process and what all of this means for

0:49.5

day one business readiness. To help me consider these issues, I'm joined by Anna Wallace, Director

0:56.0

of Political Relations, Phil Brown, Senior Trade Advisor, and Julia Oslo Cole, head of our immigration

1:03.0

team. Don't forget, you can submit questions on screen for any of the panelists and we'll

1:09.0

try to get to as many of these as possible.

1:12.1

So, Anna, it's been a busy time for the UK negotiation team, the government and in the UK Parliament.

1:18.5

Can you summarise for us where we are and where things are still to come?

1:22.9

Sure, Andrew. Well, I was reminded by someone recently that the Article 50 negotiations were to come in two phases.

1:30.3

There would be the phase one, so all of the exit issues and then phase two where we'd start talking about the future trading relationship.

1:37.3

And we actually made quite quick progress in terms of the exit issues in the first part of the Article 15 negotiations,

1:43.3

coming up to the

1:45.0

December council last year where we had agreement on those issues of citizens rights, the bill

1:50.6

and the Irish question. That was quite quickly followed in March by agreement around transitions,

1:56.1

so maintaining the status quo until the end of 2020. And then we also had the capacity of the withdrawal bill,

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