Andrew Neil points gloomy warning Britain faces ‘misplaced decade’ over Brexit

Andrew Neil has issued a depressing warning that Britain faces a “lost decade” over Brexit.

The broadcaster stated there have been three “wasted” years beneath Theresa May following the 2016 referendum, earlier than Boris Johnson took over.

Mr Neil stated the Government then did not capitalise on Brexit whereas coping with the Covid pandemic and Russia‘s invasion of Ukraine.

The journalist admitted Brexiteers can “still take heart from some achievements which would have been harder or impossible inside the EU”.

He pointed to the profitable vaccine rollout, the UK’s main function in supporting war-torn Kyiv, new commerce offers, the Aukus nuclear submarine undertaking with Australia and the US, and the settlement with the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) bumper Indo-Pacific commerce bloc.

But Mr Neil predicted that “these nonetheless harbouring the Brexit religion are in for slender pickings for the remainder of the last decade”.

The journalist stated neither the Conservatives nor Labour “want to talk” about Brexit.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s “coronary heart shouldn’t be in concocting a radical Brexit Britain agenda”, whereas a Labour authorities led by Sir Keir Starmer is “even much less more likely to do something to capitalise on Brexit“, he stated.

Writing within the Daily Mail, Mr Neil stated: “So whoever wins the subsequent election, it won’t produce a authorities dedicated to benefiting from Brexit.

“A dynamic digital economic system. Low, aggressive taxes for people and enterprise. Light-touch regulation of latest applied sciences.

“A robust welfare-to-work programme to tackle poverty and labour shortages. The reskilling of our people for the digital age.

“All that’s most likely simpler to realize exterior than inside a sclerotic EU. But no one is providing it. As a outcome, in terms of Brexit, we face a misplaced decade.”

It comes after the UK marked the seventh anniversary of the Brexit referendum final Friday.

A ballot of a whole bunch of individuals on a particular episode of BBC Question Time discovered 70 per cent nonetheless agreed Brexit was the proper factor to do.

Meanwhile, Brexit architect Nigel Farage warned the “battle for Brexit” is far from over in a message to Express readers.