So Boris Johnson is going to ‘do’ Brexit – but what are the actual options? | Jonathan Portes

There are choices to be made. Whatever the rhetoric, I'm willing to bet the UK remains in the single market

Brexit is "oven ready" and will be "done" on 31 January of next year. True enough. Except, of course, virtually nothing will actually change - except that we lose our voice and vote, and what remains of our influence on the future course of the EU. We'll still be in the single market, free movement will continue, as will our financial contributions, and there will be no tariffs or customs checks, either between Dublin and Calais or in the Irish Sea. Instead, we will enter an uneasy interregnum, the so-called "transition" period - really a standstill period.

Once again, we're entering into a negotiation with a much larger and economically more powerful partner

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