Brexit scenarios Q&A: Why we must prepare for less important UK market

British prime minister Theresa May’s decision to trigger Brexit before next April has made it far more likely that Britain’s departure from the EU will take the form of a “hard” Brexit, with Britain leaving both the customs union and the EU’s single market.

This would increase the impact on the Irish agri-food industry.

In the current edition of the TResearch magazine published by Teagasc, Principal Research Officers Trevor Donnellan and Kevin Hanrahan in the Teagasc Agricultural Economics and Farm Surveys Department say the UK government faces two big policy decisions — what agricultural policy will the UK pursue, and what agri-food trade relationship will the UK have with the EU27 and the rest of the world.