{"id":1170869,"date":"2026-08-26T18:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1170869\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T18:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:47:18","slug":"stuart-fitzgerald-lessons-from-brexit-britain-show-in-economic-data-from-both-sides-of-the-irish-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1170869\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuart Fitzgerald: Lessons from Brexit Britain show in economic data from both sides of the Irish Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Keir Starmer\u2019s final act was frozen in a collective paralysis. The inevitable outcome hung for months like a guillotine, shivering slowly on its way to the neck. In the end, it found its mark and Andy Burnham became Britain\u2019s seventh prime minister in the decade since the Brexit vote. The self-harm that British voters inflicted on June 23, 2016 has gutted the country\u2019s political class, stalled its economy and deepened societal divides. The relentless political chaos is matched only by the relentless self-serving egotism of Nigel Farage, who, after winning the recent Clacton by-election, said: \u201cI am damned if I\u2026<\/p>\n<p>    &#13;<br \/>\n        <a class=\"restricted-content__logo\" href=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\/wp-content\/themes\/currency-theme\/assets\/img\/Monogram-dark.svg\" alt=\"Logo\" width=\"290\" height=\"246\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n        <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Join today with an Annual membership and unlock full access to The Currency and The Wall Street Journal for just \u20ac200 \u2013 two premium memberships, one subscription.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"cta-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\/pricing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Cancel at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide_mobile\">Are you already a member? .<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;\n    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; Keir Starmer\u2019s final act was frozen in a collective paralysis. The inevitable outcome hung for months&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1170870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,1700,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,8447,16,15],"class_list":["post-1170869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brexit","tag-brexit","tag-britain","tag-economy","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-great-britain","tag-smes","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117163305713191012","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1170870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}