UK fiscal watchdog warns of impact of no-deal Brexit

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Britain's independent fiscal watchdog, the Office of Budget Responsibility, has said a no-deal Brexit at the end of this year will cut economic growth and increase unemployment.

Britain's independent fiscal watchdog, the Office of Budget Responsibility, has said a no-deal Brexit at the end of this year will cut economic growth and increase unemployment.

It said a no-deal Brexit would delay the point at which the UK's economic output returns to pre-Covid level by almost a whole year, to the third quarter of 2023. It said customs duties imposed by the UK under a WTO trade arrangement with the EU would bring in an extra £6bn in custom revenue. All of this would be in addition to the impact of Covid-19, which has delivered the largest peacetime shock to the global economy on record.

That includes the UK, where GDP is set to fall by 11% this year the largest drop in annual output since the Great Frost of 1709 - a period of exceptionally cold weather in Europe that caused crop failures and widespread famine. Such borrowing would take the debt:GDP ratio to 105% of GDP, which would be the highest level since 1959-60, although the exceptionally low interest rate environment makes that easier to bear.

 

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Have we not known this for the past four years? Pity Boris Johnson doesn't see RTE!

If it happens will it be noticable amongst the constructed world wide carnage ?

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If only they had known all this beforehand... oh, wait....

Hardly took Einstein to work that out.

No way

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