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At the beginning of February this year, eight weeks prior to the original 29th March Brexit date, we published a blog entitled “No-deal Brexit – is there a regulatory backstop?” In this blog, we attempted to summarise what firms could expect in the event we crashed out having failed to agree transitional provisions with the EU27. Eight months, four failed votes and one prime minister later we find ourselves in a painfully similar situation eight weeks before the new Brexit date of 31st October. In this blog we will revisit some the issues addressed in our initial blog, and how these may have changed since the time of writing. I write this though at a time of the utmost uncertainty, with legislation proposed to remove the possibility of No Deal, another Prime Minister under threat, and the possibility of a General Election that might yet result in a new referendum. Nevertheless, let’s deal with the here and now…