According to a new report from the Centre for European Reform, Brexit has already cost the UK economy almost £70bn – the equivalent of £440m a week or £840 for every household in the country each year.
The report from the Centre for European Reform think tank, obtained by The Independent, also found that the UK economy was 2.9 per cent smaller three years after the June 2016 Brexit referendum than it would have been if Britain had voted to Remain.
And as Boris Johnson made new concessions to Brussels in the hope of securing a withdrawal agreement, a respected think tank warned that even if a deal is reached, the uncertainty and disruption of Brexit can be expected to drag on to the middle of the 2020s or beyond, with the danger of multiple no-deal cliff-edges along the way.
Despite the prime minister’s claim that “getting Brexit done” this month will allow him to focus on domestic priorities like the NHS and crime, the Institute for Government’s Brexit programme director said that EU withdrawal can be expected to soak up the government’s “political capital and time and energy” for years to come.
With Johnson’s “do or die” Halloween deadline just 15 days away, People’s Vote campaigners are now calling on voters in their hundreds of thousands to join the Together for The Final Say march in London on Saturday to demand a confirmatory referendum on any deal.
As campaigners predicted Saturday’s march and rally will be one of the biggest demonstrations in UK political history.
