Britain Is Now Paying the Price

David Frum: “Altogether, Britain is expected to be the worst performing of the world’s 20 biggest economies this year. The British government’s official forecaster predicts that after-inflation household incomes will decline by an average of 7.1 percent over the three years ending in spring 2024. On the present trajectory, Britain will not return to 2019 levels of disposable income until 2027. By 2024, the average British household will likely have a lower living standard than the average household in Slovenia. On present trends, the average British household will be poorer than the average in Poland by 2030.”

“The pandemic has not helped, but the slowdown of the British economy cannot be explained by Covid. Italy has suffered more deaths from Covid than any other major European country has, yet its economy had mostly recovered to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2021.”

“Britain is now paying the price for its decision to leave the European Union.”