
How Brexit, a startling act of economic self-harm, foreshadowed Trump's tariffs
By the middle of 2022, investment in Britain was 11 percent lower than it would have been without Brexit, based on a model by John Springford, who used a basket of comparable economies to stand in for a non-Brexit Britain. Trade in goods was 7 per cent lower and gross domestic product 5.5 per cent lower, according to Mr Springford, a fellow at the Centre for European Reform, a think-tank in London.