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Brexiteers try to wriggle out of blame for economic slowdown

10 August 2016

Throughout the referendum campaign, experts raised serious, well-founded concerns about the potential for Brexit to cause serious economic harm. These went unanswered, because the Leave camp had no answers to offer. Instead, they were met with smears. This tactic won the Brexiteers the campaign, but Professor John Van Reenen - director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE - says that silencing economists won't fix a thing now:
''The Telegraph's absurd claim is the Bank is totally wrong and that all will be simply spiffing if only all those pesky economists stopped telling the truth about how high uncertainty, less trade and lower foreign investment are bad for the national wealth.< As predicted, things are getting worse. And also as predicted, Brexiteers will blame the Remain campaign for causing the harm they themselves have inflicted on the British people.''

This article was published online by the InFacts blog on August 10, 2016
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Related publications
See the complete set of CEP Brexit Analysis research papers here

Related links
John Van Reenen webpage
Growth Programme webpage

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