UK's trade deficit before Brexit vote narrower than first calculated

Office for National Statistics revises gap down to 6% from 7% after uncovering major mistake in import and export data

Britain's trade deficit in the months before the Brexit vote was narrower than first calculated after the government's statistics agency uncovered a major mistake in monthly import and export data going back to 2015.

The multi-billion pound errors mean the UK appears to have relied slightly less on the "kindness of strangers" in the run up to the referendum.