So we now know that Michel Barnier, the EU's chief negotiator on Brexit, and better known to the accounting profession as the mastermind behind the much watered down EU audit regulations, is committed to a 'divorce first, trade talks later' for dealings with the UK. So all those negotiators had better get ready to burn the midnight oil. As the bill for Brexit mounts, the Big Four firms are no doubt sharpening their pencils in anticipation of the flood of business heading their way, except for poor old Deloitte, whose rather garrulous secondee dropped the government in it when he leaked a memo indicating that there was actually no plan to speak of. Well, we kind of knew that.
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