The Daily Mail:
Ministers do battle over whether Britain should stay in the European customs union amid warnings quitting could mean a 4.5% hit to economy
19 October 2016
Papers circulated at a meeting of the Brexit Cabinet committee apparently suggested that leaving could clog up trade through Britain's ports.
The research, by the Treasury, the thinktank NIESR, the Centre for Economic Performance and London School of Economics focus on a Norway-style model where the UK exits the single market but stays inside the customs union.
This article was published by The Daily Mail on October 19, 2016
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Related publications
June 20, 2016
CEP, NIESR and IFS blog
Leaving the EU would almost certainly damage our economic prospects
Economists for Brexit: A Critique, Thomas Sampson, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano and John Van Reenen, CEP Brexit Analysis Series, Paper No.6, May 2016
See the complete set of CEP Brexit Analysis research papers here
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Holger Breinlich webpage
Swati Dhingra webpage
Hanwei Huang webpage
Gianmarco Ottaviano webpage
Thomas Sampson webpage
John Van Reenen webpage
Trade Programme webpage
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