What the UK wants for Christmas is to get Brexit undone | William Keegan

Importers, exporters, private citizens and the Labour party all urgently need the economy to function better than this

For a long time, people would ask me: Why do you go on all the time about Brexit?" My answer would take various forms, but essentially it boiled down to: Because it is the biggest self-inflicted British economic crisis of my career." Brexit affects businesses and what economists call consumers" every day - almost always adversely.

More recently, the consistent message from readers I encounter, when Brexit comes up in the conversation, has been please don't stop". Indeed, it is time to get Brexit undone".