1) The EU is not allowing the UK any unofficial negotiations, so they have no idea how any of these economic negotiations will go. The UK government is scared to pull the trigger and no one in power wants to be the one to do it.
2) The UK needs free trade with the EU. If they want free trade, they also have to agree to free movement of labor. Stopping free movement of the labor was one of the core reasons the Brexit passed.
1) The EU is not allowing the UK any unofficial negotiations, so they have no idea how any of these economic negotiations will go. The UK government is scared to pull the trigger and no one in power wants to be the one to do it.
2) The UK needs free trade with the EU. If they want free trade, they also have to agree to free movement of labor. Stopping free movement of the labor was one of the core reasons the Brexit passed.