Covid has been an easy scapegoat for economic disruption, but Brexit is biting | Anand Menon

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : Overall, 57% of Britons think the government is doing a bad job of handling Brexit.
65% : More than half of people now think Brexit has had a negative impact on the supply of food and goods, while 51% think it has adversely affected the cost of living, including more than a third of leave voters.
55% : As the pandemic recedes, the negative impacts of Brexit will become clearer and its political effects more unpredictable
53% : It has also meant that much economic activity that would have been - and will be - affected by Brexit (think of service providers travelling to the EU to sell their wares) has been paused.
49% : It's two years since the UK left the European Union, slightly more than one since it exited the single market and customs union.
49% : However, while we may still have food on the shelves, Brexit has already begun to act as a drag on the UK economy.
48% : Brexit is forecast to have a net cost to the public finances of around £30bn a year.
48% : What, then, of claims that Brexit provides us with opportunities to recoup these losses via trade deals and more effective domestic regulation?
38% : Yet Brexit was already beginning to bite.
35% : Brexit, of course, has shaped far more than our economy.

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