Brexit hysteria grips Germany as newspaper gloats 'English Channel is wider and UK poorer'

Press quote (Express)
05 January 2022

The Centre for European Reform deputy director John Springford has compared the British economy with a fictional doppelganger in which the UK voted against Brexit in 2016. In the years between the referendum and the exit from the European Union, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the real country was three percent lower than that of the doppelganger.