Opinion – Letters to the Editor:  Alastair Hamilton must acknowledge Brexit realities Writing in the Huffington Post Invest NI chief executive Alastair Hamilton has described the concern that Brexit would be an “economic calamity” as “fiction”. This is a remarkable contention given that many impact assessments including those by the Department for the Economy, the British Treasury and the London School of Economics agree that economic growth will suffer in the event of Brexit. But Mr Hamilton does not cite any actual studies. Nor does he refer to the possibility of our trade with the EU being disrupted by tariff and non-tariff barriers. He also ignores the implications for farmers who depend on EU funding. The prospect of universities losing students, staff and research funding is omitted. The pivotal issue of the border is not even mentioned.

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