‘What have we done?’: six years on, UK counts the cost of Brexit

Lorries queueing on the A20 on their way to Dover, in April. Photograph: Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images

On 23 June 2016, Geoffrey Betts, the managing director of a small office supplies business in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, had high hopes for his firm, and the British economy, when he voted for Brexit.

“I thought we would be like … ‘here we go, here we go. We are going to become the most competitive country in Europe and we are going to be encouraging business.’ Now I think: ‘What have we done?’”