Brexit 'more complex than first moon landing', says academic study

Analysis by German professor claims project for UK to leave the EU is a trickier task than Nasa's 1969 moonshot

Britain extricating itself from the European Union will be "incomparably more complex" than the first moon landing, an academic study has found.

Roland Alter, a professor at Heilbronn University in Germany who specialises in risk assessment, said he had been inspired to carry out his analysis after comments by the Brexit secretary, David Davis, that he was "running a set of projects that make the Nasa moonshot look quite simple".