We should just trade on WTO terms

ACCORDING to Google’s news service on my smartphone, Michel Barnier has been writing to UK opposition parties asking them to put pressure on our overworked UK government to ask for a two-year extension to Brexit negotiations.

Now every nation’s trade is worth a lot less than it was in 2016, it is hardly worth protecting with an agreement, since the Office of National Statistics found that only 7.7 per cent of UK GDP comes from EU goods exports, while Germany’s is 27.3 per cent.

So we are far less dependent on