Remember that Brexit referendum? Fancy doing it all again? Of all the various things Andy Burnham could say immediately upon becoming prime minister (as seems increasingly likely), this, surely, is the most far-fetched.
Still, ten years on from the historic vote, there is a growing call among some members of his party to do just that. So, what options does the next leader of the UK actually have, and are any of them more palatable?
To start with the obvious, Brexit is costing us. Some recent modelling suggests that rejoining the EU would boost the UK’s GDP by £92 billion over 5-10 years. Economists now have data on our economic performance since Brexit, all of which points to a significant impact.
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Put bluntly, if there were any other policy that we knew was costing the country between 3-8 per cent of GDP, we’d certainly be talking about it more actively.
