Davy Young, Managing Director and Niall Walsh, Western Europe Analyst from Oxford Analytica discuss the realities currently facing the UK in a post-Brexit, post-lockdown era.

The UK officially left the EU as of January 31, 2020 and signed a trade deal with the European Union on December 30, 2020, thus avoiding a hard, no-deal Brexit from the EU. On July 19, 2021, the UK lifted the last of the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions after a brutal year and a half battling the pandemic. So, what does the UK look like now?

Brexit political tensions with Northern Ireland continue at a boil, supply chains continue to be disrupted, and sales of food and beverages from the UK to Europe took a dive in the first half of the year. What is UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan to address these post-Brexit issues? Meanwhile, Covid-19 cases are on the rise again in the UK since lifting restrictions and despite nearly 80% of adults being fully vaccinated. The government has denied the possibility of a “firebreak lockdown” in October, but is it possible?