With only weeks to go, are we ready for Brexit?

With a matter of weeks to go until the UK is due to leave the European Union, negotiations between warring factions in the British political establishment threaten to derail any prospect of a staged, sensibly managed exit process.

While UK Prime Minister Theresa May has presented a plan, agreed with the EU, for a 20 month “transition period” - under which many of the rules of trade would remain the same, allowing time for further discussion on a permanent settlement - that deal remains in limbo, after being roundly rejected by the British Parliament last month.

As things stand, if the government cannot get the withdrawal agreement through Parliament - and many in Mrs May’s own party reject it outright - the UK will crash out of the 28-nation trading bloc on March 29, uprooting all the settled rules of trade, including customs arrangements and regulatory agreements.