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Keir Starmer is ready to betray die-hard Remainers who ushered him in
But so far, Britain's departure has, from an economic perspective, been unambiguously negative. You can take it with a pinch of salt if you like, but the Centre for European Reform recently estimated that UK GDP is 5.5pc smaller because of Brexit, which is equivalent to around £40bn annually in tax revenue, or enough to pay for virtually all of Liz Truss's doomed tax cutting agenda.