It didn’t have to be that way. But it has been.
Brexit has been a disaster.
They would notice that every other major economy suffered from the 2008 crash, the pandemic and the Ukraine war. But only the UK hobbled itself with the self-inflicted wound of Brexit.
Meanwhile the Centre for European Reform
estimated that the trade barriers and import prices Brexit raised had cost the UK economy 5.5 per cent of GDP by the summer of 2022.
The BBC, business and Labour are silent about the-blunder-that-must-not-be-named
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Also, tariffs, ie “taxes” are a bad idea.