Four years on, Brexit is demonstrating the long-term risks of shaping a country’s future on nativist, populist anger

Besides slowing economic growth, Brexit shared part of the responsibility for soaring prices by increasing trade barriers with the EU, the U.K.’s biggest trading partner.

Among the four prime ministers who have departed 10 Downing Street in the ensuing chaos is Boris Johnson, who captured the job on the basis of his long-time Euroskeptic laurels, but was forced out amid a series of ethics scandals, writes Les Whittington.No. 10 Downing Street photograph by Pippa Fowles

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

January 17, 2024

OTTAWA—With the fourth anniversary of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union approaching on Jan. 31, Britons are still reeling from inflation that rose as high as 11 per cent, and an economy teetering on the brink of recession.

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