Brexit To And Fro Continues Into Fresh Decade

A Myriad Of Outcomes Lie Ahead

Three Brexit deadlines have come and gone, and the UK is still a member of the European Union. It will remain so until it agrees a withdrawal deal or leaves without one at the end of January 2020. Alternatively, it could secure yet another extension to the Article 50 period beyond January 31. Or it could decide not to leave at all.

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For the life sciences industry, the latest delay to the Brexit process spells a further period of regulatory and trade uncertainty. Companies poured time, energy and money into preparing for the possibility of a no-deal exit on 31 October, only to see that date pass uneventfully by when prime minister Boris Johnson reluctantly requested another extension, this time to January 31, 2020.

The industry certainly does not want a no-deal outcome, but it does crave some form of stability. The feeling was...

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