Brexit: a divisive anniversary

Three years on from Brexit, its impact on the British economy remains highly debated

Demonstrators attend the National Rejoin March in Parliament Square on October 22, 2022
The National Rejoin March in October
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If anyone was celebrating Brexit’s third anniversary last month, they were doing it jolly quietly, said Brian Reade in the Daily Mirror. “Where was the bonging of Big Ben and pealing of church bells”, to mark “our glorious escape from those evil EU slavemasters”? Perhaps the “stony silence” from the Brexiters was unsurprising, given that the IMF thinks the UK will perform worse than any other big economy this year.

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