The leaked government Brexit report reinforces the academic consensus that the harder the Brexit, the worse it will be for the UK economy.
The EU’s regional policy has brought investment to large parts of the UK that have otherwise been neglected by Westminster.
The foreign secretary famously claimed that Britain could ‘have its cake and eat it’ in negotiations to leave the EU, but now finds that his Brexit cake is rotten to the core and filled with maggots. Nobody wants a slice.
The £350m a week figure the Leave campaign fictitiously claimed the UK sends the European Union was a “gross underestimate”, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has falsely asserted.
Theresa May’s inability to convince members of her cabinet to move jobs demonstrates her lack of leadership abilities and the weakness that has dogged her premiership.