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The Independent:
Decline in living standards and GDP drop to result from Brexit, report finds

25 June 2019

The slide in sterling since the referendum has pushed up prices without doing much to boost UK exports, while wage growth has lagged behind inflation, the analysis has found. Authors cite estimates by the London School of Economics and Political Science that the resulting higher consumer prices were costing the average UK household an additional £870 per year by June 2018.

The Brexit Scorecard, The UK in a Changing Europe, June 2019.

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