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  • Stop blaming Brexit for economic woes, Reeves told

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    Rachel Reeves has been accused of trying to "row back on Brexit", as the chancellor prepares to set out how "deeper" ties with the EU will help drive economic growth. Ms Reeves will deliver the annual Mais lecture today, where she will declare regional investment and AI as being similarly vital for getting the economy growing."In this changing world, Britain is not powerless," she will say. "We can shape our own future. Our method is stability, investment, and reform - through an active and strategic state. "Today, I am making three big choices on the greatest growth opportunities for Britain in the decade ... (full story)

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nbfx
Mar 17, 2026 3:16am
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HMG seriously dropped the ball with the post-Brexit approach, but successive governments have done worse and this one shot themselves in the foot by promising to stay with the previous (repeatedly failed) policy of austerity etc.

Not our finest sadly...
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nbfx
Mar 17, 2026 6:55am
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I rather suspect that had the EU taken more seriously the concerns of one of its largest contributors at the time (UK) instead of humiliating Cameron (the PM) and sending him away like a naughty schoolboy, the referrendum would never have happened.

That's all history...
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TheDazman
Mar 17, 2026 5:29am
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Brexit was the dumbest sh!t going - cut yourself off from a neighbouring market of 450 million, remove the right of your citizens to move freely between 27 other countries to live, learn and love. What were the advantages? Imaginary. I saw the writing on the wall and left the island once the vote came about and I feel vindicated every time I go back: it looks like a third-world hell-hole. I now live in the country with the best quality of life in the world (an EU country mind-you) and love every minute of it.
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Trader#20B3
Mar 17, 2026 3:27am
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Brexit has cost Britain about 120 billion in gdp per year. That equates to approx 40 billion in lost taxes per year. Think what we could have done with that money.
Brexit was achieved by Russian money and interference. Putin struck a blow against the strength of the EU without risking anything.
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