Outside the EU, farming faces a choice between diversity or decay
UK farmers have been promised that £3bn of EU direct payments, which come to end because of Brexit, will be matched until the 2024 General Election. The economic and social repercussions of the...
View ArticleThe cost of Brexit is likely to be more than double that of COVID – it must...
Whether we face Hard Brexit or No Deal, the long-run costs to the economy are likely to be more than twice that of COVID-19 – at least £2,000 per person, warns John Van Reenen (LSE). He advocates...
View ArticleCOVID-19 has disrupted businesses’ ability to prepare for Brexit, but the...
Almost half of businesses report that COVID-19 has negatively affected their ability to prepare for Brexit. More than half listed uncertainty on the future arrangements between the UK and EU as a...
View ArticleA bad Brexit deal will hit the services sector hard
The end of the transition period is looming. Businesses are asked to prepare, but they don’t know what to prepare for. With just two weeks to go, there is still a lack of clarity on most crucial issues...
View ArticleBrexit remains far from over: the “slow burn” of EU-exit will stress the...
The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement represents another step in a drawn-out, phase-by-phase Brexit, according to Dennis Shen (Scope Ratings). While the UK is expected to ultimately maintain...
View ArticleScottish independence would be 2-3 times more costly than Brexit, and...
In this blog, Hanwei Huang, Thomas Sampson and Patrick Schneider (LSE) analyse the economics of Scottish independence by looking at its impact on trade. Independence would put a new border between...
View ArticleBrexit means Brexit for the City of London
As of 2021 UK financial firms lost access to the EU single market and now need regulatory equivalence to do business on the continent. Brexit really does mean Brexit for the City of London, writes John...
View ArticleBrexit heralds a bleak future for the City of London
Brexit heralds a bleak future for the City of London writes Sven Van Kerckhoven (Brussels School of Governance). He argues that the temporary equivalence frameworks that have been put into place...
View ArticleBusiness has been a bystander to Brexit
In 2016, while pro-Brexit voices characterised the vote as a stand-off between ordinary people and the elite, a striking feature of the campaign and its aftermath is the limited role played by one...
View ArticleDon’t forget the countryside: rural communities and Brexit
The relationship between rural areas and Brexit has been neglected in a preoccupation with the urban geographies of the ‘left behind’ and the political arguments about culture wars. How might the...
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