Analysis: The explosive Brexit spat that no one is talking about could slam the UK economy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Less humble request to join, more anger at Brussels trying to punish it for Brexit.
62% : It would be a political nightmare for the UK's prime minister, an architect of Brexit, to be seen as at the mercy of the very Eurocrats he claims to have saved Brits from in 2016.
57% : Some of Brexit's most ardent critics are concerned that the failure to join Lugano and the poor relationship between the UK and European countries following Brexit could diminish the standing of this important sector.
54% : The agreement in question is called the Lugano Convention, and essentially it establishes the jurisdiction of national courts, guaranteeing the legal recognition and enforcement of a wide range of civil and commercial judgments in cross-border disputes.
53% : The UK dropped out of the treaty as a consequence of Brexit, and applied to rejoin in April 2020.
53% : I'm afraid Brexit has brought a goat trail where there was a highway for UK judgments.
40% : Garvey, chair of the Law Society's Private International Law committee, agrees that the strained political relations between the UK and EU won't have as negative an impact on big commercial contracts, but could severely harm those seeking legal recourse as consumers or in family disputes.
35% : London (CNN Business)Boris Johnson has spent decades agitating against the European Union and the last five years battling to free the United Kingdom from the shackles of regulation from Brussels.

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