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title: Brexit Has Countless Victims and Nobody Has Been Held Responsible
description: Ten years on, Brexit has left Britain poorer and small firms hit hardest. Vote Leave broke electoral law, yet nobody has been held responsible.
author: Dr Marina Nani (Editor-in-Chief)
date: 2026-11-09T05:23:13.746Z
updated: 2026-11-09T05:23:13.761Z
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On 23rd June 2016, Britain was sold a promise painted on the side of a bus. Ten years later, the whole country is still paying for it. The people who sold that promise have not paid a penny.

## The Cost of Brexit to Britain

The damage is now measured rather than guessed. Economists at the US National Bureau of Economic Research found in November 2025 that Brexit had left UK GDP 6 to 8 per cent lower than it would have been inside the European Union, with investment down 12 to 18 per cent. Britain's own fiscal watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility, expects the post-Brexit trading relationship to cut long-run productivity by 4 per cent. We set out [the full range of estimates](https://www.sovereignmagazine.com/article/the-real-toll-brexit-has-taken-on-the-uk-economy) earlier this year, and every serious study points the same way.

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