There can be no doubt any more: Brexit will make us poorer | Jonathan Portes

Three separate reports published this week have each reached the same conclusion. Britain will be worse off outside the EU

You wait for months for an analysis of the economic impacts of Brexit, and then three come along at once. But, in contrast to the public perception that economists can't agree on even the most basic questions, like whether austerity was necessary or desirable, what is most striking about the reports published this week is how much they have in common. All three analyses this week (a report funded by the People's Vote and produced by National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR); the UK in a Changing Europe report that I and Thomas Sampson of LSE co-wrote; and, most importantly, today's "cross-government long-term economic analysis") all share the same basic messages.

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