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Thierry Breton, who is also single market commissioner, believes downsides of leaving bloc are exposed by pandemic
It's been five years since the UK voted to leave the EU. The vote appalled those who saw it as economic self-sabotage. But those in favor of leaving were not swayed by economic arguments — and likely still aren't today.
He said Brexit was supposed to take back control and boost the UK's international position, but we are seeing "pretty much the opposite".
On trade, finance, migration, food standards and more, the UK suffers fresh ignominy on a daily basis.
Brexit’s collateral damage - Chris Patten
30/06/2021
Five years after the Brexit vote, the costs of that decision are becoming clearer.
Boris Johnson chronically confuses culture and economics of affair called Brexit.
Anyone ordering goods from the EU in 2021 has likely come in for a nasty shock to the wallet.
Joe Marshall says the government’s latest decision to delay full border checks on EU imports is only storing up problems – and creating news ones.
The Brexit trade deal hailed as a £148 million boost to the UK fishing fleet over the next five years will instead punish the industry to the tune of more than £300m, a new report says.
The former prime minister’s hollow catchphrase captured a fundamental truth—just not the one she thought it did.
An island nation must trade with its nearest mainland, whatever our new Brexit opportunities minister claims.
Boris Johnson wrong to use Brexit to justify ‘morally delinquent’ Rwanda plan, says senior Tory
19/04/2022
‘We are better than this – or at least, we used to be’, says David Davis.
‘Sovereignty’ and ‘taking back control’ seem a lot less attractive when you’re stuck at an airport or struggling with red tape.
Brexit Chickens Come Home to Roost
07/06/2022
While the picture’s hardly pretty and certainly not what advocates of Brexit envisioned, none of it surprises economists. As a former Bank of England official observed: “You run a trade war against yourself, bad things happen.”
A conspiracy of silence over Brexit
22/06/2022
ix years after the EU referendum, the United Kingdom is being forced to confront an inconvenient truth: Brexit is a process, not an event. It is emphatically not done. Only now are the consequences of the “oven-ready deal” of which Boris Johnson boasted becoming clear.
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?
Why Has Brexit Become Less Popular?
07/09/2022
The latest poll by Redfield & Wilton Strategies for UK in a Changing Europe suggests that, among those expressing a preference, 54% would now vote to join the EU while only 46% would back staying out. That is quite a turnaround from the position just six months ago. Then, 55% were saying they would vote to stay out and only 45% to rejoin.
Brexit: who is really “taking back control”?
11/11/2022
Under the government's Brexit plans, thousands of laws and regulations are to be scrapped or rewritten by ministers with no proper scrutiny.
Britain’s government insisted Thursday (24 November) that Brexit would pay off, even as new figures showed record levels of immigration six years after the country voted to quit the EU.
Conservative MS raises concerns over delays with post-Brexit replacement grant for EU funding
18/01/2023
A Welsh Conservative has told the Senedd that the new UK subsidy control regime is taking so long to navigate that it’s having a detrimental impact on a business in his constituency.
The BBC’s Analysis editor Ros Atkins looks at the controversy surrounding the government’s plan to scrap thousands of EU-era laws.
ANAS Sarwar has admitted that Brexit has been a "disaster" for the UK economy - but said he won't back another referendum on rejoining the EU.
Brexiteers promised to “take back control.” But the decision has instead delivered recession, gloom, and despair.
‘Take back control’? With this Pacific trade deal, Brexit Britain has just signed it away
31/03/2023
Goodbye, food standards. Hello, corporate lobbyists. Why are we doing this, for no real economic benefit?