Boris Johnson and Liz Truss gave Britain a rushed, botched Brexit. Now we're all paying for it 🔵 paulwaugh for ipaperviews
And the whole saga exposes the wider issue of precipitative policy making post-Brexit. To use Sunak’s own phrase, the UK sacrificed quality for speed. It’s an issue that stems right back to Theresa May, was continued by Johnson and found its apotheosis in Truss.
Like Truss, May was a former Remainer keen to win from her party some Brexit brownie points. But in firing the starting gun without first working out the shape of the deal she wanted, the former PM failed to understand what a massive negotiating advantage she’d handed to Brussels. Former UK EU official Sir Ivan Rogers warned her against it, but she carried on regardless. The snap election only added to the weakness as it created a hung Parliament.
Even Chancellor Jeremy Hunt admitted this weekend: “I don’t deny there are costs to a decision like Brexit,” before saying there are also opportunities. Hunt also said: “What I don’t accept is the premise that Brexit will make us poorer,” but the Office for Budget Responsibility which he lauds on other matters says that’s exactly what is happening: aThere are signs that some common sense is finally arriving.
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