News cycles have been dominated by the spread of the covid19 coronavirus.
Manys a wag has said that the virus is the new Brexit, everywhere you turn that’s the news. The difference with the virus news is that people can be united in their views and antipathy toward it.
Brexit however, hasn’t gone away, and all the incipient problems associated with a hard Brexit scenario still persist.
As we move into the uncharted economic waters of a pandemic viral outbreak, it will be interesting to see how it affects the mood signals and utterances from the Brexit trade talks going on over the next months.
The latest round of talks have already been postponed.