Over 100 signatories call on PM to avoid 'no deal' or 'bad deal'

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Over 100 SMEs, entrepreneurs and business associations have signed a letter urging the PM to avoid no deal or a bad deal in Brexit negotiations with the EU.

Instead, the signatories are calling on Boris Johnson to focus on securing the favourable trading arrangements to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and secure the economic recovery.

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In a statement, Juergen Maier, former CEO of Siemens UK said: "This call for needing a close relationship and deal with the EU comes at a critical moment of a transition extension being ruled out and business focused on recovering from Covid. This is not a call to reopen old divisions about remaining or leaving. What we now need is a common sense approach to our relationship with the EU. The government must now deliver for us all, and on their promise to get a good deal, not a bad deal and definitely not a no deal.”

The letter comes in response to the UK government not seeking an extension of the Brexit Transition Period, which now leaves six months to negotiate a trade deal with the EU.

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