Leaked Brexit economic forecasts rekindles old UK debate
UK economy could be 8% smaller in 15 years than without Brexit, report says
The leak of UK government forecasts on the economic impact of the country's withdrawal from the European Union next year is giving both sides of the debate a chance to rehash arguments from the 2016 referendum campaign.
The analysis was supposed to be so secret that government ministers weren’t going to be allowed to keep their own copies, but BuzzFeed published a report on their contents on Monday evening. Quizzed about it in Parliament, MP Steve Baker called it a "selective interpretation of a preliminary analysis."
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