This is a heck of a thread with a 👀 punchline:
'Areas that voted most strongly for Leave have not suffered the largest economic costs. The correlation is weakly negative as Remain-voting areas (London, Scottish cities, university towns) bore the brunt. Brexit was a levelling up by levelling down'
Ben Rosamond
🏴 Scotland is one of the hardest hit regions w ~9% GVA loss by 2023
The biggest sectors (whisky & food, oil & chemicals, professional services) make up 44% of its EU exports. Brexit erected barriers across all of them.
And Scotland didn’t vote for this...
brexitcost.org/itl1/TLM.htm...
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Brexit cost estimate for Scotland: −£27,357m GVA gap in 2023 (−14% vs. no-Brexit path). Synthetic control analysis — Brexit Cost Project.