There is absolutely no incentive for the other EU members to make a deal which won’t benefit them.  They have no need to make concessions which will make it ‘easy’ for the UK to leave.  The UK will be direct competitors to the EU and the greater the damage they can do to our trade and economic growth the better it will be for them.

We were told by the ‘leave’campaign that Germany in particular wouldn’t want to lose the UK market and would make sure that trade would continue unhindered if we left the EU.  The reality is that in trade terms it will be easier for the EU to fill any trade gaps that occur when we leave than it will be for the UK.