Britain’s Brexit Divorce Skills Get Thumbs Down From Economists in Poll

Britain's chief Brexit negotiator David Davis (L) and EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier arrive to address the media following a sixth round of Brexit talks at the European Union Commission building in Brussels on November 10, 2017. Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images

LONDON—Britain’s government has handled negotiations with the European Union over its departure from the bloc poorly, according to all economists in a Reuters poll, who did however say there was just a one-in-five chance of a disorderly Brexit.

In June 2016, Britons surprised the world by voting to scrap the more than four-decade-old trading and political partnership, and in March last year Prime Minister Theresa May started a two-year countdown to departing the EU.