The sort of hard Brexit for which these free-marketeers (another ‘think-tank’) argue would ‘boost our economy’ in the same way that ‘democracy’ boosted Russia’s. Maybe there’d be money to be made but it would be highly unlikely, I’d say, to be distributed quite as evenly between households (£40 per week each?) as they propose. More like some would be £4000 a week better off, a lot more bankrupt and/or jobless. Will we never learn?
“UK slips into recession as economy contracts 0.1% in December”
This week’s big economic and bad election news is that we are, or certainly have been, officially in a recession. You may not have thought you were, or you may have thought you have been for some time, as we and its effects are all different.
