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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
William Keegan

What the UK wants for Christmas is to get Brexit undone

Boris Johnson, in 2019, drives a Union flag-themed JCB digger through a fake wall, with the words 'Get Brexit Done' on the digger bucket.
Boris Johnson, as prime minister in 2019, promised that a deal was ‘done’ on post-Brexit trade. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images

For a long time, people would ask me: “Why do you go on all the time about Brexit?” My answer would take various forms, but essentially it boiled down to: “Because it is the biggest self-inflicted British economic crisis of my career.” Brexit affects businesses and what economists call “consumers” every day – almost always adversely.

More recently, the consistent message from readers I encounter, when Brexit comes up in the conversation, has been “please don’t stop”. Indeed, it is time to “get Brexit undone”.

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