{"id":88428,"date":"2025-05-09T21:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T21:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/88428\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T21:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T21:54:13","slug":"is-brexit-talk-a-poisoned-chalice-to-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/88428\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Brexit talk a &#8216;poisoned chalice&#8217; to politicians?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Independent <a href=\"https:\/\/obr.uk\/forecasts-in-depth\/the-economy-forecast\/brexit-analysis\/#:~:text=Specifically%2C%20our%20latest%20economy%20forecast,to%20remaining%20in%20the%20EU.\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Office for Budget Responsibility, external<\/a> estimates Brexit has made the UK economy 4% smaller than it might have been.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/britain\/2024\/06\/03\/can-britains-economy-grow-as-fast-as-it-needs-to\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Economist newspaper reported, external<\/a> higher trade barriers had seen the export of goods from the UK shrink by 10% since 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many other factors could be at play, though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brexit has been followed by a global pandemic, the shock of the mini-budget, and the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Even so, Paula Keaveney, a senior lecturer in politics at Edge Hill University, said most politicians were reticent about discussing Brexit. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s caused problems in some places and these will come up as parties campaign,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But I think parties are going to be quite careful not to have too much about Brexit in their campaigning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From the comments being sent to Your Voice, Your Vote, though, it seems the Brexit debate still matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Independent Office for Budget Responsibility, external estimates Brexit has made the UK economy 4% smaller than it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88429,"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-88428","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\/114480104299557596","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88428","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=88428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}