The Brexit effect: how leaving the EU hit the UK

Since leaving the EU, UK has been on a downhill. There have been several prime ministers trying to salvage the situation. Rishi Sunak is the latest in the least.
The country’s budget can trace its origins back to Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. The economic costs of Brexit were masked by the Covid-19 pandemic and the crisis in Ukraine.
Yet, six years after the UK voted to leave, the effect has become clear. In this film, senior FT writers and British businesspeople examine how Brexit hit the UK economy, the political conspiracy of silence, and why there has not yet been a convincing case for a ‘Brexit dividend’.