In case Boris is already looking forward to saving himself 40 billion euro by not paying the UK’s dues when it crashes out of the EU, then the EU will ‘retaliate’ by raising tariffs, up to the point that no American company, that wants to do business with and in the larger EU market, will want to set up shop in the UK. Since 2017, the Netherlands has already attracted well over one hundred companies that were formerly established in the UK, some of them British, others from other countries.