LSE finds one-third decline in trading relationships under Boris Johnson’s deal – which has hit small firms hardest. / Brexit red tape means the UK has “stopped selling” many products to smaller EU countries, according to alarming new evidence of the impact on trade.
Brexit has reduced the competitiveness of the British economy, with alarming implications for productivity and wages, according to the Resolution Foundation.
The OBR forecast that Brexit would cost the UK economy 4% of GDP now looks ridiculously optimistic as the damage mounts.
As Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to depart Downing Street, tossed from office by his own party, his legacy — the opening lines of his eventual obituary — will call him the man who “got Brexit done.” / So how is that going? What can be said about the post-Brexit Britain that Johnson is leaving behind?
EU withdrawal fuelling higher import costs and costing British workers nearly £500 a year, says Resolution Foundation.
Kent farming giant reports 8% fall in harvest due to lack of seasonal pickers – saying it’s easier to import fruit.
Brexit regret: Why the ‘undeniable disaster’ finally hit home with the British public in 2022
01/01/2023
Public opinion shifted against Brexit after a deluge of damning evidence on economic costs.
Dispute over Northern Ireland protocol puts associate membership of Horizon Europe scheme in doubt.
Brexit trade talks: Ursula von der Leyen may have a soft spot for Britain, but she will be no soft touch
08/01/2020
The new European Commission President spoke of her love of the UK, but warned of 'consequences' in negotiations.
Brexit uncertainty affected a large proportion of UK textile and apparel firms, both upstream and downstream—over 60 per cent of firms in both manufacturers and lead firms’ groups, according to researchers from the London School of Economics (LSE).
LSE report says even sectors unscathed from coronavirus crisis will be severely impacted.
Northern Ireland will be the UK regional economy least impacted by Brexit, partially due to the NI Protocol, new analysis has suggested.
There's been a huge fall in trade between the UK and Germany during the first month of the new trading relationship between the UK and the EU.
From NHS staff shortages to export woes, the effects of the 2016 vote are still being felt.
The UK will be stuck with searing inflation for years because of Brexit, according to strategists at Wall Street’s top banks.
Wages are worth less as direct result of departure from EU, says Monetary Policy Committe member. / Brexit has added 6 per cent to UK food prices, a Bank of England official has said as inflation hit a 41-year high.
Britain has delayed imposing its full post-Brexit import controls on goods from the European Union again, pushing it back until the end of next year, saying it did not want to add more fuel to fast-rising inflation.
Edi Rama urges ministers to ‘stop discriminating’ after Suella Braverman’s ‘Albanian criminals’ comments in Commons.
By the end of 2021, Brexit had already cost UK households a total of £5.8 billion in higher food bills – new LSE research
01/12/2022
Leaving the European Union (EU) added an average of £210 to household food bills over the two years to the end of 2021, costing UK consumers a total of £5.8 billion, new research from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics finds.
Most people think Brexit has gone badly, a UK survey finds, and Johnson has left behind a mess of problems for a new PM.
Did the unfounded claim that Turkey was about to join the EU swing the Brexit referendum?
15/02/2018
Even in 2016 – before Turkey’s latest turn towards authoritarianism – the chances of the country joining the EU before 2030 were remote. Yet this did not prevent Vote Leave from claiming during the UK’s EU referendum campaign that Turkey was poised to join.
Ursula von der Leyen tells students that deal will be ‘for your generation’.
Extra checks and requirements on goods has pushed prices up by 6%, or £5.8bn, over two years.
Editorial: The UK’s six-year Brexit hangover
05/01/2023
There's little talk of reversing the decision, but evidence of Brexit-induced harm is piling up.
IT'S one of the most commonly trotted out Unionist scare stories – claims that an independent Scotland would not be permitted to join the European Union. It just became even harder for Unionists to pretend that this is really the case.