Brexit has cost the UK economy roughly 7-8% and the effects were more severe in Scotland and London, two regions which did not vote for Brexit: “Brexit was a levelling up by levelling down”
Rebecca Sear
🧵 New working paper out today: "Measuring the Regional Economic Cost of Brexit: Evidence as of 2026" with @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social @trfetzer.com & Shizhuo Wang
Here's what the data say about who paid the price in these 10 years from the referendum
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