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struggle4progress

(118,348 posts)
Fri May 6, 2022, 02:32 AM May 2022

UK economy's damage from Brexit

John FitzGerald

All ... economic assessments prior to Brexit suggested that it would have a substantial negative impact on the UK economy.

... when it finally happened .. it coincided with the outbreak of the pandemic, a smoke screen that hid the initial negative economic effects .. More recently, the .. war in the Ukraine has caused major disruption .. obscuring how Brexit is impacting .. British living standards ...

Based on International Monetary Fund forecasts, over the period 2019 to 2023 cumulative growth in the UK will be less than in other major world economies ...

Small exporters have given up on the EU market because the new obstacles to trade are too great ...

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/john-fitzgerald-extent-of-uk-economy-s-damage-from-brexit-has-been-masked-1.4870583

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struggle4progress

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1. Tories lose historic Westminster council
Fri May 6, 2022, 02:35 AM
May 2022

Council election candidates ask not to be punished for ‘mistakes made in Westminster’

Lamiat Sabin
Namita Singh
Thomas Kingsley

Labour has pulled off a historic victory in the Tory council of Westminster — a seat held by the Conservatives since its creation in 1964.

It came just hours after Tories also lost its “crown jewel” of Wandsworth, which the Labour Party last held 44 years ago in 1978, in a major blow to Boris Johnson ...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/local-election-results-2022-uk-live-conservative-labour-b2072767.html

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