Brexit: Brits to lose EU citizenship 2020
the country's 47 year membership of the bloc officially ends Friday night at 23:00 GMT the UK will then inter a so called transition period until the end of the year to get time to reach a deal on its future relationship with the EU thousands of Brexit supporters are expected on the streets outside of Westminster later on Friday to celebrate the occasion this is in Europe we're trying to ensure the UK doesn't run out of food Lawrence Lee reports from Belgium the last day for the UK in the European Union but here they're carrying on as if nothing is changing the vegetables come from several European countries and the bagged ovens supplied to schools and hospitals all over Britain so well organized that they've works out how to keep feeding the UK even if a trade deal never happens.
things like food are critical in forthcoming trade talks and will determine to what extent the UK plans to stick close to the EU but would no deal mean no food .
what about brexit is that uniquely it involves the UK dismantling rather than creating existing trade deals and that's led many people to wonder in the worst case scenario if the UK will simply run out of things like food but maybe just maybe things won't be all that bad.
remember all the talk of huge queues of trucks on motorways this is Antwerp container port which believes it can help avoid much of that they're quite convinced all the talk of shortages of anything from medicines to toilet paper will come to nothing.
times bricks eaters have always said speculation the UK will run out of vital supplies is overblown but their slogan taking back control will also mean continuing to rely on Europe.
the West of Flanders here is the export of vegetables all the time going from the port of Zeebrugge the port of antwerp to the to the UK so i know that you will still have trade with us but of course we want an agreement maybe focused on on things like beverage and food.
in Brussels brits and others distraught about Brexit have been partying away their sorrows but if Belgian exporters have got it rights the Uk's great departure may not turn out to be entirely traumatic for either side .