The Prime Minister, Theresa May confirmed during the latest Tory Conference that the UK will begin the formal Brexit negotiation process by the end of March 2017.
Now the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) is being forced to open up its panel to seek expert legal advice on negotiating trade deals. Expertise in trade law is a skill set that has diminished and it will be interesting to see how or where we find these "expert" trade lawyers.

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