Only 16% of experts believe Theresa May will secure a Brexit future trade deal with the EU before the deadline

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• Experts aren’t confident that Theresa May is going to secure a Brexit trade deal with the EU before the 2020 deadline.
• According to a new poll of 100 academics who specialise on the subject, just 16% think the UK Prime Minister will get a deal.
• 42%, meanwhile, think the UK will leave the EU without a trade deal.

Only 16 per cent of some of the country’s leading Brexit experts believe that Theresa May will be able to secure a future trade deal with the European Union (EU) before the December 2020 deadline. 

The Brexit policy panel, a cross-disciplinary group of some of the 100 most prominent academics on the issue, asked a range of questions in order to forecast where Britain is heading once it leaves the bloc. 

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