Per the FT: "Business leaders in Northern........>

UK: Per the FT: "Business leaders in Northern Ireland have called for the

deferral of new Brexit trade checks due in January, warning that they still lack

crucial details after "little or no engagement" with the UK government on the

plan. The demand for a pause of at least six months after the end of the UK's

transition from the EU on December 31 came as regional trade bodies said

coronavirus disruption meant business has "little bandwidth or financial

capacity" to deal with new post-Brexit arrangements. The intervention on Friday

by the Northern Ireland business Brexit working group - comprising 15 trade

bodies, representing 90 per cent of the region's companies - has raised fresh

doubts about the lack of readiness to implement the Irish protocol in the UK's

EU withdrawal treaty."