Brexit has clobbered smaller businesses
It has raised prices in Britain, too
BREXIT WAS always going to be a bother. The question was how much of one it would be. Although industries like financial services have not suffered the disaster some predicted, it is not hard to find aggravated business-owners complaining that leaving the EU has brought baffling bureaucracy, higher costs and frustrating delays. A flurry of new studies quantifies the pain.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Left behind”
Britain April 30th 2022
- Nationalists are set for a historic win in Northern Ireland's vote
- Brexit has clobbered smaller businesses
- The NHS is in seriously poor shape
- Piers Morgan is the face of TalkTV
- Britain’s student-finance system is being overhauled, again
- In Britain, internal migration is out of favour
- Sir Keir Starmer, the cynical leader
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