The new select committee on exiting the European Union will have a very tough and complex job in scrutinising the government’s plans for Brexit. In doing so there will be three key tasks: minimising business uncertainty; balancing control of free movement with continued access to the EU market for UK goods and services; and finding a new way to co-operate with our European neighbours on security, defence and foreign affairs. Some uncertainty is inevitable and cannot be resolved until the negotiations have been concluded, but if other uncertainty is the result of conflicting messages or a lack of clarity about…

Source: The Times October 20, 2016 10:52 UTC