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This weekend, there were more claims that Brexit has led to slow economic growth in the UK, repeating the views of senior Labour politicians seeking re-entry into the European Union.
It is hard to disentangle the economic effects of Brexit from those of the Covid lockdowns and the Russia–Ukraine and US–Iran wars
An article in the Sunday Times said it is ‘irritating’ when people say Brexit’s effect on the economy ‘cannot have been that bad because, since 2016, the UK’s economic growth has been in line with the big European economies’.
It continued: ‘Such claims ignore the history, which is that before the Leave vote, achieving the growth rates of the big European economies would have been regarded as a failure’, and that ‘the loss of growth is all the clearer in the figures for GDP per head post-2016, with the UK comfortably outgrown by Italy, Spain, France and the eurozone’.
