{"id":172843,"date":"2025-06-10T11:43:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/172843\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T11:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:43:18","slug":"closer-uk-eu-ties-can-boost-welsh-economy-after-farages-disastrous-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/172843\/","title":{"rendered":"Closer UK-EU ties can boost Welsh economy after Farage\u2019s disastrous Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Campaigners have called for closer UK-EU ties to boost the economy in Wales, highlighting the impact of Brexit on Welsh farmers, businesses and young people.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/shutterstock_2471028205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It comes after Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said his party wants to restart Port Talbot\u2019s blast furnaces and \u201cre-industrialise Wales\u201d while on a visit to South Wales, a year ahead of the Senedd elections in May 2026, where the party is pitching itself as a rival to Welsh Labour.<\/p>\n<p>The GMB Union has branded the plans \u201cmore lies from an opportunistic chancer\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Responding to Nigel Farage&#8217;s speech in Port Talbot, Naomi Smith, Chief Executive of Best for Britain, which campaigns for closer UK-EU trading ties, said:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople in Wales know that leaving the EU, a project spearheaded by Nigel Farage, has been an utter disaster for Welsh farmers, business owners and young people &#8211; and that his politics of fear and division would take the country backwards not forwards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndependent economic research shows that if the UK and EU pursue common sense alignment on rules for trading goods and services, the Welsh economy could grow 0.36% per year &#8211; benefitting businesses, protecting jobs and supporting families with the cost of living.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Campaigners have called for closer UK-EU ties to boost the economy in Wales, highlighting the impact of Brexit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-172843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114658896034979123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172843","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=172843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}