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An hour before New Year’s Day, at 11pm on 31 December 2020, the UK completed its formal departure from the European Union (EU). It was an unceremonious conclusion to the four-and-a-half-year saga since the referendum.

The latest UK national lockdown represents a new kind of challenge for the Government: to articulate to Covid-weary households and businesses that things will soon get better, but first they will worsen. An ambitious national vaccination campaign is underway, raising hopes that the end of the pandemic is in sight. However, at the same time we are in the grip of the virus with rates of infection soaring, exacerbated by a virulent new strain.

Access to export loans has been widened in an effort to boost export activities as the post-Brexit transition period nears its end.

After Prime Minister Boris Johnson reluctantly announced a second national lockdown in England on Halloween to suppress the second wave surge in coronavirus cases, Chancellor Rishi Sunak responded by extending the government’s flagship loan schemes. It was perhaps inevitable, but the current extension may be the last.

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