Ten Years After Brexit, Britain’s European Relationship Remains Unresolved
A decade after the Brexit referendum, a new essay collection by the Centre for European Reform, ‘Ten years after the...
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The Cost Of Brexit, Ten Years On: The Impact Of Leaving The Customs Union And Single Market On UK Trade
A new CER modelling exercise shows that Brexit has substantially reduced the UK’s trade with the EU, both in goods...
Energy Shock 2.0: Lessons From 2022 For The Hormuz Crisis
If the Strait of Hormuz stays closed, Europe will face as serious an energy crisis as it did in 2022....
The Impact Of Brexit On Immigration To The UK
By John Springford and Jonathan Portes A new analysis finds that Brexit raised the number of foreign-born workers in the...
Policy To Accommodate Populist Voters Won’t Work
There is an expansive literature on the causes of the rise of populism. Its lesson? Policies designed to appease populism...
Reconciling UK Migration Policy With The Energy Transition
A new Centre for European Reform policy brief finds that many foreign workers that are needed to deliver the British...
The Gap Between The ‘Brexit Reset’ Rhetoric And The Reality
Rough-and-ready calculations based on the stated demands of the UK and EU suggest the reset might raise Britain's GDP by...
French Lessons For Britain’s Economy
By John Springford Average wages in Britain are only slightly higher than they were in 2007. That extraordinary fact is...
