British Liberal Democrat politician Nick Clegg has warned that a “hard Brexit” will cause “economic harm” on the United Kingdom and hurt the poor people more.
In his first election campaign speech on Monday, the former leader of the Liberal Democrats said that Britain’s planned withdrawal from the European Union was already making citizens poorer and that British Prime Minister Theresa May would make it worse by accept a “hard Brexit”.
“These are figures about what is happening. As you heard just recently, growth is down, consumer spending after the splurge last year is also down and, crucially, the amount of money that people have in their pockets is down in real terms because of course, tragically, while last year people’s earnings were starting to creep up above the increase in prices in the shops, that’s now flipped around because of the increase in inflation brought about by depreciation in the pound,” he said.
“In other…