The Brexit Scorecard Foreword
The Brexit scorecard FOREWORD A week is a long time in British politics, as they say. But amidst the fevered speculation about the Conservative leadership election and yet another looming Brexit deadline, we risk losing sight of the bigger picture. In 2017, the UK in a Changing Europe set out a series of tests against which to judge the impact of Brexit on our country. Two years on, with the UK still a member state of the EU, we’ve decided to see what the evidence tells us about where we’ve got so far, and where we are going. In what follows, we provide an objective and impartial analysis both of the impact of Brexit to date and of what, given what we know now, the future holds. Clearly, it is too soon to come to a definitive judgement but, three years on from the referendum, it is certainly time to take stock. As ever, this report has relied on the hard work of a large number of individuals. It was written by Meredith Crowley, David Bailey, Raquel Ortega-Argilés, Thomas Sampson, Charlotte O’Brien, Iain Begg, Catherine Barnard, Holger Breinlich, Alan Renwick, Steve Peers, Phil McCann and Nigel Driffield. Any errors and omissions are, however, the responsibility of the editors. We hope they are as pleased as we are with the outcome, and that you find what follows useful in assessing the Brexit balance sheet. Anand Menon, Jonathan Portes & Matthew Bevington, co-editors Hyperlinks to cited material can be found online at www.UKandEU.ac.uk 24 June 2019 The UK in a Changing Europe promotes rigorous, high-quality and independent research into the complex and ever changing relationship between the UK and the EU.
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