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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

try to get to as many of these as possible.

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

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

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

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.

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

coming up to the

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

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

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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