{"id":82481,"date":"2025-05-19T07:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T06:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=82481"},"modified":"2025-05-19T07:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T06:42:09","slug":"will-labour-reverse-the-harm-of-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/05\/19\/will-labour-reverse-the-harm-of-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Labour reverse the harm of Brexit?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you listened to 10 Downing Street<\/a>, you would think that the agreement it is trying to reach with the EU today is epochal.<\/p>\n

It isn't.<\/p>\n

It just might reverse some of the enormous damage of Brexit, but nothing but removing trade barriers will ever overcome that harm, as this chart from The Guardian<\/a> shows:<\/p>\n

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As usual, Labour does not understand the big issue, is missing the point, and is dealing with the relatively inconsequential issues arising from a matter that it knows is of massive significance but which it refuses to address.<\/p>\n

Have people so unable to manage ever run a government? The answer is yes, of course: the Tories were as bad. But all that proves is that we have the wrong people in government altogether now. This is no place for the small-minded<\/a>, but that is what we get.<\/p>\n

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