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Almost exactly ten years after the June 2016 referendum, Brexit and its consequences again dominate British politics.
These ten years have seen the country divided and its political system tested almost to destruction. The public debates have often been based on assertions and arguments that are highly technical, especially those concerning economics and trade. Has Brexit made us poorer, and do we therefore need to return to the EU fold, as the present government and its supporters insist? Or is it the policies of successive governments that are responsible for our economic handicaps?
There has been a ten-year campaign, still continuing, to persuade the British public that they made the wrong decision in 2016, and that they should have listened to those politicians, intellectuals and ‘experts’ who told them to vote Remain. Yet much of what we have been told, and are still being told, has no basis in evidence, and it is often provably wrong. Resolving the biggest political issue of our time needs facts, not propaganda, and this book gives them.
The contributors are members of Briefings for Britain, a volunteer group that has been supplying information to the public since 2017. Catherine McBride OBE is a professional trade economist, Wilf Glasby is a professional economist working in the private sector, Nick Busvine OBE is a former diplomat, co-editors Robert Tombs and Graham Gudgin CBE are respectively a historian and an economist at Cambridge.
