A Doncaster business chief has urged Government to strike a trade arrangement with the EU 'as promised' warning firms could go out of business in a no deal Brexit scenario.
Chamber of commerce boss Dan Fell said though some businesses had opposing views on the political wings of Brexit, what united them was the 'lack of clarity from Government' over the future arrangememts
Mr Fell said the Government had handled the issue of Brexit 'poorly' and it was 'near impossible' to plan for no deal because many questions had been left unanswered from Whitehall.
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"There's broad church of business opinion and the issue of Brexit divides them as communities are but what unites them is for things that need to be organised and clear," Mr Fell said.
"It doesn't matter if they think they will have risk to mitigate or an opportunity to maximise potential, having a clear sense of what's going to happen is extremely important.
"The fact we have a matter of weeks to go with no clarity on if there's going to be a deal and what it may or may not look like - it's impossible for businesses in Doncaster to get ready.
"There's real anxiety in the business community and if it is a no deal Brexit, there is still a load of things Government hasn't played back to the private sector and what it means. It's pretty galling and frustrating for a lot of people."
Negotiations between the 海角视频 and the EU will continue in Brussels but a new deadline for a decision has not been set.
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The ultimate deadline comes on December 31 when the 海角视频 stops following EU trading rules.
Mr Fell added that businesses in Doncaster are still in the dark in the event of a no deal in terms of tariffs and these 'unintended consequences' could be 'business critical' for some in the borough.
On the Government's handling of negotiations and the Brexit process, Mr Fell said: "National government has handled this really poorly. We were sold a proposition back in the last election that there was an oven-ready Brexit deal - that was the language of our national leaders
"Clearly that wasn't the so-called oven-ready deal we kept hearing about because we're sat here with days and hours to go.
"I feel that business has been let down by that fundamental principle of where we were told a deal could be done but it hasn't been done.
"There's the other side where businesses were told to prepare for a no deal scenario but what they haven't done is given firms the tool to plan for that outcome because it's so vague and ambiguous.
"There's still so many unanswered questions that businesses can't prepare for no deal properly - the Government have done a really poor job on this."
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Business chambers across the country, including Doncaster, have a 30 question checklist on Brexit and only 10 of 30 have been answered, Mr Fell added.
When asked about a worst case scenario, Mr Fell said: "A late announcement or even later than the deadline of a no deal scenario is probably the worst case scenario for Doncaster because that gives businesses a really, really tiny window to understand the implications.
"Along with the huge impact and challenges of Covid-19, this will be a sort of perfect storm for many people and my call to Government to do what it promised and to carve out a deal with the EU which we were told would be doable.
"I'm urging Government to keep at it because having that smooth as possible trading relationship with the EU on January 1 is really important."