Less trade, less growth: With each passing month it is becoming clearer how badly the British economy is suffering as a result of the exit from the EU. The Brexit hangover is spreading among the British.
London. In the end, Simon Spurrell had to sell his company. Brexit has spoiled the cheese maker’s business so much that he had no other way out. Since the beginning of 2021, he has had to fill out certificates when exporting to the EU, which cost him £180 each time. Overnight he lost 20 percent of his business. Spurrell has repeatedly urged the British government to remove the bureaucratic hurdles. So persistent was he that former Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly called him “that damn cheese man”.
But he didn’t succeed. Spurrell sold its Cheshire Cheese Company to a competitor in November. This has a branch in the Netherlands and can therefore export to the EU without much bureaucracy. Examples like this abound now. With each passing month, the extent of the damage Brexit has done to the UK economy is becoming more apparent. During the pandemic, it was sometimes tricky to separate the consequences of Covid and those of Brexit – but now the picture is clearer.