UK must stop ‘walking on eggshells’ over post-Brexit deal, says BCC chief

Shevaun Haviland will say the current arrangement does not work for the BCC’s members and has created unacceptable frictions. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

The UK’s current trade deal with the EU is not working and the country must stop “walking on eggshells” around the issue of building closer ties with its biggest trading partner, the director general of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) is expected to say.

At the annual BCC global conference in London on Thursday, Shevaun Haviland will say that the UK must forge closer ties with the EU and the next government should focus on improving trading relations to grow the economy.