Brexit has 'hit UK trade and left firms facing higher costs and more paperwork'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Businesses have faced higher costs, more paperwork and border delays since Brexit, a scathing new report has found.
41% : Dame Meg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, said: 'One of the great promises of Brexit was freeing British businesses to give them the headroom to maximise their productivity and contribution to the economy - even more desperately needed now on the long road to recovery from the pandemic.
39% : Vote Leave supporters had sold Brexit as a way of freeing up firms to boost productivity and their contribution to the economy.
38% : The Public Accounts Committee said the 'only detectable impact' of Britain's exit from the European Union so far has been to increase the burdens on businesses.

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