Nine months after the UK voted to leave the EU, the formal exit process has finally started. Within two years, the UK will be out of the EU either on agreed terms or cast adrift with no deal.

The negotiating rhetoric and posturing on both sides will be one confusing aspect of the next two years. UK Ministers have said they will not provide a running commentary on the negotiations, but, with 27 countries plus the European Parliament and Commission also involved and increasingly committed to transparency, there will be a lot of information and misinformation out there. This, plus the high levels of uncertainty until the very end of the process, will make it a difficult environment to take the best business decisions.