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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 29 November 2022 - Brexit is a threat to UK productivity and output
Description: There are growing fears that the UK political system is rapidly becoming outdated and unfit for purpose. The Conservative Party have been in power for more than a decade despite a catalogue of missteps, the largest of all being their ownership of the Brexit debate.
In the lead up to the vote on the UK’s membership of the European Union, both sides of the argument, with the opposition powerless to intercede due mainly to their failure to agree a policy on the subject. Once the decision to leave was taken, they seem to have gravitated towards the remain cause, si...