Scathing report by Public Accounts Committee criticises government’s approach.
Johnson's much-trumpeted FTAs “barely scratch the surface of the UK’s challenge to make up the GDP lost by leaving the EU”.
THE SNP have hit out at the UK Government’s “unacceptable” refusal to publish an impact analysis on the Brexit deal, despite having done so for other trade agreements.
The Public Accounts Committee warned of "trade-offs" across "agriculture, the environment and human rights”.
It’s five years since Britain voted to leave the EU – so what number should really have been on the side of the Vote Leave bus? Ben Chu examines the real impact of Brexit on the UK’s economy.
5.2% GDP shortfall ‘mostly’ down to Britain’s exit from EU, according to top think tank.
The cost of Brexit: September 2021
29/11/2021
In September 2021, UK goods trade was 11.2 per cent, or £8.5 billion, lower than it would have been if the UK had stayed in the EU’s single market and customs union.
All trade deals combined worth less than 50p per person a year, analysis of government figures shows.
It’s almost 100 days since Britain completed its split from the EU -- almost five years after the referendum vote –- and a clearer picture of the consequences of the decision to leave is starting to emerge.
Brexit will soon have cost the UK more than all of its payments to the EU over the last 47 years put together
14/01/2020
Brexit will have cost the UK more than £200 billion in lost economic growth by the end of this year - a figure which almost eclipses the total amount the UK will have paid towards the EU budget over the past 47 years.
Next boss, thinktanks and unions criticise Boris Johnson, saying ‘shortages cannot be blustered away’
Trade friction has ‘clear and robust’ impact on supermarket prices, say economists.
Boris Johnson's own official government figures shows his Brexit deal will make British people much poorer
17/01/2020
Johnson's own government's analysis suggests that a deal along the lines of that backed by Parliament will reduce annual economic growth by 6.7% compared to staying in the EU.
Recalling Newsnight's coverage, Maitlis said: "It might take our producers five minutes to find 60 economists who feared Brexit and five hours to find a sole voice who espoused it. But by the time we went on air we simply had one of each; we presented this unequal effort to our audience as balance. It wasn't."
Difficulties cannot be dismissed as no more than teething problems, say experts.
Exports to EU to plunge by more than one-third because of Boris Johnson’s Brexit trade deal, study warns
14/01/2021
Income per-head forecast to fall by 6 per cent – just 2 per cent less than under a no-deal departure.
Brexit Party MEP shut down after questioning economic credentials of Green Party MEP, who informs him she is a professor of economics
27/11/2019
'I think Mr Rowland stands corrected,' said chair after Richard Rowland humiliated in chamber.
The cost of Brexit has already been predicted to hit £200 billion this year - totalling more than the UK has paid into the EU over 47 years.
Boris Johnson accused of misleading voters after claiming there is 'absolutely zero' risk of no-deal Brexit
19/11/2019
'I believe the trade experts', says ex-treasury minister David Gauke - pointing to consensus rejecting claims of rapid new deal.
Small towns in Midlands and North will suffer most from Boris Johnson’s Brexit trade deal, IFS says
26/02/2020
Small towns in the Midlands and North are among the areas likely to suffer most from the bare-bones trade deal Boris Johnson is seeking with Brussels, according to a respected economic thinktank.
South West MEP Molly Scott Cato spectacularly shuts down Brexit Party MEP who questions her economics experience
26/11/2019
The showdown took place at the European Parliament in Strasbourg today.
Admission lays bare limited benefits of ‘ambitious’ agreement with Donald Trump.
Debunking the paper championed by Jacob Rees Mogg claiming a no-deal Brexit would boost the economy
11/09/2018
The Brexit debate deserves so much better than Economists for Free Trade’s latest offering. Their paper, championed by Jacob Rees-Mogg, tries to make the case for leaving the EU without a deal and trading under World Trade Organization rules.
Brexit will have soon cost the UK more than all its payments to the EU over the past 47 years put together
25/02/2020
Brexit is set to have cost the UK more than £200 billion in lost economic growth by the end of this year — a figure that almost eclipses the total amount the UK has paid toward the European Union budget over the past 47 years.