Lorries queue on the route to the English port of Dover to board ferries to Europe on Friday. Consumers and businesses are starting to panic at the prospect of no trade deal between the UK and EU. (Reuters Photo)
LONDON: Negotiations between the UK and European Union over a post-Brexit trade deal are reaching a tense climax, with Sunday looming as the do-or-die deadline.
British negotiators have indicated that the prospect of the talks continuing past Sunday is remote. Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday warned business and the public to prepare to leave the EU single market without a trade deal as negotiations with the bloc falter.
Anxiety among businesses and consumers is fuelling an increasingly frenzied demand for goods, creating traffic snarl-ups at ports and highways on both sides of the English…
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