this was such a missed opportunity for the UK. They had a only-in-a-lifetime chance to start from a scratch with their regulatory framework governing exports.

this was such a missed opportunity for the UK. They had a only-in-a-lifetime chance to start from a scratch with their regulatory framework governing exports. They should have replaced the EU captive market they were about to lose, with sufficient trade deals with the rest of the world so that when the time came, they would have had a much stronger negotiating with the EU. They would have had a healthier economy right before COVID, too. Instead of hunting around the world for deals and getting their industry free rein to produce more and export away, they wasted their entire time bickering with the EU ...who was happy to sit tight and let the UK take the blame. I guess when you know that politicians were in charge, you can easily assume nothing productive would come out of it.