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Secondo questi calcoli del Centre for European Reform (CER), gruppo di studio specializzato sulla Ue, l’economia britannica si è già rimpicciolita di circa il 2,5% rispetto a quello che sarebbe stata se il «sì» cioè il Remain avesse vinto il referendum due anni fa.

Einer Forschergruppe des "Centre for European Reform" zufolge kostet der Brexit Großbritannien jede Woche 500 Millionen Pfund (umgerechnet 560 Millionen Euro). Die Einsparungen durch wegfallende Zahlungen an die EU würden dadurch wieder zunichtegemacht - zudem sei die britische Wirtschaftskraft durch die Abstimmung im Juni 2016 um etwa 2,5 Prozent gesunken.

A fresh analysis of Brexit by the Centre for European Reform think tank meanwhile warned that the UK's public finances have already taken a £500m-a-week hit since the 2016 vote. The study claims that the UK economy is now some 2.5% smaller than it would have been if Remain had triumphed.

Meanwhile, research by the Centre for European Reform put the cost of Brexit to the taxpayer at £500million a week.The economy is about 2.5% smaller than it would have been if the public have voted to Remain in June 2016, it said.Treasury coffers have been dented by £26billion pounds a year - the equivalent of £500million pounds a week, researchers added.

The Centre for European Reform, a research group that focuses on the European Union, said the British economy is about 2.5 percent smaller than it would have been if the public have voted to remain in the bloc in June 2016. Its findings were based on the impact on the economy until the end of June 2018.

Brexit is already costing the public purse £500m a week, new research has found – a stark contrast to the £350m “dividend” promised by the Leave campaign. The Centre for European Reform’s analysis also suggests that the government’s austerity drive would be on the way to completion had Britain voted to stay in the European Union.

As Sam Lowe, a trade expert at the Centre for European Reform, has written: "The UK is an intermediary manufacturer - one that imports to export - and the EU is, and will remain, the UK's most important trading partner". Reducing border friction is a reasonable ambition.
But one of Labour's six tests is that Labour says it must deliver the "exact same benefits" as we currently have as members of the single market and customs union. This proposal would not do that.
 

“A long-term customs union would reduce the number of checks necessary between Northern Ireland and Great Britain, since tariffs and rules of origin would not be an issue. And, as tempers cool over time — and if the wave of populism that currently threatens the EU recedes — it may be possible to bolt on shared rules and standards to the customs union, so that it gets closer to membership of the single market in goods. This strategy would amount to a ‘de-dramatisation’ of Chequers in order to make it more palatable to the EU, but it would not remove the need to agree a backstop.” (Sam Lowe and John Springford of the Centre for European Reform)