negotiations is an absolute hard liner somebody who wanted heartbreaks it and that is exactly the opposite of course of what the companies want to the european companies as well as the british companies just over the last two or three weeks we had air bus we had jagger out with b.m.w. siemens a lot of other larger companies warning threatening that they would drastically scale back their investments and generally their presence in the u.k. in case of a heart break said now that seems to be a little further off the table and i want to just make clear how important that is to the business is by just quoting what we just heard from the director of the confederation of british industry she says the number one priority for british firms in terms of trade is the european union and she says further unless and until you have an alternative way of reaching frictionless trade a customs union is the right answer so very clearly. businesses are elated here so