Today we are hugely constrained compared to 24 hours ago in the things we can do - a few:
- live or work across the EU with no barriers
- stay longer that 90 days in any period of 180 days
- enjoy recognition of professional qualifications in other EU states
- run financial services business from UK
- import or export goods requires customs documentation
These may be resolved in the future. Any agreement needs to be flexible to meet changing circumstances - although I can't help feeling that this was a bit of expediency to get an agreement signed, albeit with significant gaps.
Whether the short term pain is worth the long term gain through sovereignty and freedom from EU regulation is debatable.
We will probably never really know the answer. Politicians will continue to be selective with the statistics the use to support their case, and if all else fails they can blame it on covid.
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