Especially if you supported Leave. It's a brutal, lengthy, detailed dissection of all the potential economic damage leaving the EU will do to the UK.
Now that many advanced economies have recovered and are close to – or above – their pre-pandemic level of output, we can compare Britain’s economic performance to its peers. The results are troubling.
UNCTAD World Investment Report 2019 [pdf]
12/06/2019
(See Chapter 1, p4 for FDI figures for various countries, including the UK, in 2017 and 2018.)
The UK has seen investment from overseas collapse in the past two years, underscoring its diminishing allure as a global business destination since Brexit, revised United Nations data show.
Fresh inward investment in the sector plummeted in 2018, down 46.5 per cent on 2017 to just £588.6m.
Bill set to include retroactive powers to scrutinize takeovers / Institute of Directors fears ‘chilling effect’ on investment
Trade and investment relations with Africa are increasingly important to the European Union’s strategic goals
Car giants Toyota and BMW have both warned a no-deal Brexit threatens the production of their cars in the UK.
Top Japanese official issues ominous warning to Theresa May's Government, saying 'no-deal' Brexit would be 'impossible for us to accept'
21/07/2018
Shinichi Iida, a minister in the London embassy, said Japanese manufacturers are holding off on committing to the UK with new investments due to the uncertainty – and that potential new investors are steering clear of Britain.
The year in Brexit
20/12/2023
The past 12 months have been littered with grandiose claims about the benefits of Brexit and the ability of the UK to demand what it wants from the EU. But the sad and inescapable conclusion is that none of those benefits exist and that the UK has been forced into a number of embarrassing retreats and compromises.
The UK and the global economy after Brexit
27/04/2022
Brexit has reduced UK trade openness, foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, and immigration growth. New border frictions and higher transport costs pose new barriers to trade, and FDI inflows are unlikely to return to levels reached in the 1990s and 2000s.
The true cost of Brexit is becoming clearer
19/06/2021
Half a decade after the referendum, the economic hit to the UK caused by Brexit is becoming clearer. But it will be years before the true impact is understood
The Guardian’s in-house Brexit apologist
06/12/2023
Why does the newspaper continue to publish Larry Elliot’s Corbynite nonsense on the EU?
Swati Dhingra of the Centre for Economic Policy at the London School of Economics talks about the key economics of Brexit The interview was recorded at the Royal Economic Society annual conference at The University of Sussex in Spring 2016 and produced by Econ Films.
Steptoe | Brexit One Year On
18/01/2023
However, this article seeks to describe, as far as possible, how Brexit has affected the business and regulatory environment across the full range of areas covered by Steptoe and Johnson practices so far, and to identify issues of potential future concern for companies.
New study highlights increasing importance of French market for Irish exporters. / The Republic’s bilateral trade with France has mushroomed to a record €30 billion per annum in the wake of Brexit, according to a new report.
Sir Martin Donnelly: UK trade and exports – the challenge of how British firms succeed after Brexit
28/02/2018
Sir Martin shared his insight on what challenges the Government is facing, what the Government and business should do now and how the UK seeks to forge new trading relationships outside of the European Union.
Sharp fall in foreign investment in UK
26/06/2019
New figures from the Department for International Trade show that investment in the UK by overseas firms has declined sharply in recent years. / The number of new projects in the UK fell 14% in 2018-19. / At the same time, there was a 24% fall in the number of jobs created.
Negotiating the path to the future EU-UK relationship - American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU) infographic
'American companies in Europe support a deep and comprehensive economic partnership between the EU and the UK'
The men behind Trussonomics and Brexit, the two great man-made catastrophes of recent years, are to be honoured for their ‘great work’.
Lessons from seven lean years of Brexit
28/04/2023
Almost seven years on from the Brexit referendum, there remains uncertainty over the future UK-EU relationship. Reflecting on the lessons from the last seven years, Neil Kinnock argues there remains a clear case for the UK being an economic, political, social, scientific and cultural part of the Europe of the future.
The number of Japanese companies and their employees in the UK is starting to decline. Given that this is against the trend elsewhere in Europe, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that this is a reaction to Brexit.