No-deal Brexit is the UK’s biggest economic threat, not Covid

The writer is a former UK Lord Chancellor For some weeks, restless Conservative MPs have been asking the UK government to produce a cost-benefit analysis of the economic consequences of its Covid-19 restrictions. In March, the OBR set out its analysis of the government’s stated Brexit objective, whi...

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Published inFT.com
Main Author Gauke, David
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London The Financial Times Limited 28.11.2020
Subjects
Anniversaries
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 vaccines
EU membership
Free trade
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
Pandemics
Trade agreements
Vaccines
United Kingdom > UK
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Summary:The writer is a former UK Lord Chancellor For some weeks, restless Conservative MPs have been asking the UK government to produce a cost-benefit analysis of the economic consequences of its Covid-19 restrictions. In March, the OBR set out its analysis of the government’s stated Brexit objective, which amounts to a very thin deal that will erect significant barriers with our most important trading partner. To get any kind of deal, Mr Johnson will have to accept that if the UK departs from certain standards in social, environmental and state aid policy, access to EU markets will be reduced.