No deal will mean so many compromises for Britain: Trump will make sure of that

Concessions on food standards, data protection, taxes on tech giants … EU membership was never like this

Britain’s abject weakness as a trading nation is on full display in Biarritz at this weekend’s G7 summit. The warm embrace from Donald Trump for his old friend Boris Johnson and the talk of favourable access to American markets cannot disguise how ill-prepared the UK is for life outside the European Union’s protective wall.

Like a medieval tribe piously leaving the citadel even as its enemies are massing on the horizon, Britons are discovering that Brexit is going to demand many more compromises than were ever forced on it by majority voting inside the EU.

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