Key line from this report "This is an argument for honesty from those who still claim Brexit offers benefits"There’s an elephant in the room at Keir Starmer’s big investment summit: Brexit
Why would any business locate themselves in a country that has cut itself off from the world’s largest trading bloc when it could just do business in the world’s largest trading bloc? Brexit has not been a “big bang” of damage but a slow drain of talent, investment and, ultimately, growth. Now the pandemic has receded, that is painfully clear. Aston University research shows a 27% drop in UK exports and a 32% decline in imports from the EU since 2021, which translates to an annual loss of £183bn.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/there-s-an-elephant-in-the-room-at-keir-starmer-s-big-investment-summit-brexit/ar-AA1sf9pa?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=5b4f49faafa248b09a08c0d405bb0c62&ei=11
I wonder if there's anything obvious that could be done to help the Government grow the economy by a few billion a year ? Still, onwards and downwards
This will never happen
I have experienced first hand the chaos, loss of business and higher costs due to Brexit. It has really hurt. Yet I am regularly told that Brexit was never the problem but 'the Brexit that was implemented was not the one we voted for' and always by people who are retired. Essentially it was too soft.
I will never forgive Johnson and Farage for their lies and wilful damage to our nation and economy but I also recognise that if Labour had campaigned properly against it, brexit would never have happened. Starmer was part of that. In fairness, respect to the Lib Dem's for consistently owning Remain.