Boris Johnson became prime minister on the promise that Brexit would bring prosperity and pride. Did it?

Jonathan Portes assesses the extent to which predictions about trade and migration before the Brexit vote have materialised, highlighting that trade has been reduced by additional barriers but the extent to which liberalisation would increase migration flows in the short term was underestimated.

Political distance from Brussels has been achieved. This is not up for question. However, economically speaking, there is vast room for improvement. The OBR calculates, in its current form, that Brexit is reducing our GDP by four per cent. This compares to around 1.5 per cent caused by Covid.

In September 2018, the East African Community appointed a twelve member Committee of Experts to begin drafting a new constitution for an East African Confederation as a step towards full federation.

When Boris Johnson agreed the Brexit divorce package with the EU, he promised it would unleash innovation, turning Britain into an agile “science superpower”. But rather than boost UK science and technology, Brexit has – so far – damaged it,

Japan recently released a rather extraordinary memo on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website. It provides clear, frank and specific recommendations to both the UK and the European Union (EU) on the topic of the impending separation of the UK from the EU.

Contrary to recent reports, the European Union knows Britain could walk away and is preparing accordingly.

Lexiteers, happily aped by Nigel Farage, claim that EU rules prevent nationalisation. This is simply wrong, as any reading of the law would reveal.

The man who used to run the WTO says the EU single market, set up by Margaret Thatcher, is ‘the top league’.

The evidence shows that Brexit isn’t working and, despite what Starmer claims, it cannot be made to work until we rejoin the single market.

Now that it’s a reality, can an esteemed historian produce convincing arguments for the UK’s departure from the EU?

Having left the largest internal market in the world, the search is on to give the impression that there are many new trade partnerships out there to compensate for the already very real loss of cross-Channel trade. / At the moment, Britain’s trade with the CPTPP countries is less than our trade with Germany alone.

It’s high time politicians got real about the EU and single market, extinguished the bonfire of lies and told the truth.

If so, Ireland would risk being seen as less than a full member of the EU single market.

Are you a quality manager for a small medical device start-up looking to expand into global markets? Or maybe you are a seasoned device manufacturer preparing to once again traverse quality regulations to deliver a new product to the European market?

The course of Brexit was set in the hours and days after the 2016 referendum. / It was at 6:22 a.m. on June 24, 2016 — 59 minutes before the official tally was unveiled — that the European Council sent its first “lines to take” to the national governments that make up the EU.

As UK public feeling shifts back to a pro-European stance, is it time to positively charge the nature of the conversation?

It might seem like a small detail, but it marks a serious blow to the push for ‘divergence’.

The first concerns the United Kingdom. Aside from a few hard-liners, Brexit -- the decision to leave the common market made by Boris Johnson's administration -- has become a disaster.