{"id":346011,"date":"2018-01-30T10:34:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T09:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/every-brexit-option-will-hurt-britain-leaked-govt-report-reveals-rt-uk-news\/"},"modified":"2018-01-30T10:34:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T09:34:32","slug":"every-brexit-option-will-hurt-britain-leaked-govt-report-reveals-rt-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/every-brexit-option-will-hurt-britain-leaked-govt-report-reveals-rt-uk-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Brexit option will hurt Britain, leaked govt report reveals \u2014 RT UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>        A leaked government analysis on the impact of leaving the EU has detailed how Britain\u2019s economy will be worse off after Brexit \u2013 no matter what trade deal is struck with the bloc.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The report, <em>\u2018EU Exit Analysis \u2013 Cross Whitehall Briefing\u2019<\/em>, outlines three of the most likely scenarios, and brings only bad news for Britain. Growth for the UK will falter in any case, the report says.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, which has been obtained by Buzzfeed, Britain\u2019s growth would be 5 percent lower over the next 15 years \u2013 compared to current forecasts \u2013 under a comprehensive free trade agreement with the EU. A <em>\u2018no deal\u2019<\/em> scenario would reduce growth by 8 percent over that 15 year period.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QGhY7hAQz-U\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The softest Brexit option \u2013 to continue single-market access through membership of the European Economic Area (EEA) \u2013 would still lower growth by 2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The assessment is currently being kept under lock and key inside government, and will reportedly be presented to key ministers in one-on-one meetings this week ahead of discussion at the Brexit cabinet subcommittee next week.<\/p>\n<p>The report, prepared by Whitehall officials for the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU), will not be made public <em>\u201cbecause it\u2019s embarrassing,\u201d<\/em> according to the DExEU official.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis also warns that every UK region would be negatively impacted in all modeled scenarios, with the North East, the West Midlands, and Northern Ireland facing the biggest falls in economic performance. That\u2019s before a hard border for Ireland is even considered.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\">\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/417290-brexit-transition-eu-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.01\/thumbnail\/5a6f39d8fc7e9302028b4569.jpg\" alt=\"European Union's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier attends a meeting of European Union Home\/European affairs ministers in Brussels, Belgium January 29, 2018 \u00a9 Francois Lenoir\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Overall, the biggest hit comes from the UK\u2019s decision to leave both the EU\u2019s customs union and the single market. Leaving these arrangements creates what the report had called \u201cnon-tariff barriers\u201d to trade, such as loss of market access in some sectors and new customs and border checks.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the losses can be minimized if the UK chose to remain in the single market via the EEA. That way any impact can be partly offset through domestic policy or trade deals with the US and others.<\/p>\n<p>The leaked report suggests that there could be opportunity for Britain to strike trade deals with other non-EU countries. However, the assessment also sheds doubt that the benefits would be enough to outweigh the losses to the economy caused by leaving the single market and customs union.<\/p>\n<p>Moving away from the current set of rules and standards would also make it more difficult to trade with the EU in the future, and would ruffle domestic political feathers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Leaked paper&#8230;Brexit could chop 8% from growth! Wow! That\u2019s really something to get behind, Theresa, well done! And Jezza, just think you\u2019ll have absolutely zilch for all those projects of yours. What a couple of dolts! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StopBrexit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StopBrexit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Son of Robespierre (@sonofr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sonofr\/status\/958249931357212673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One more thought on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Brexit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Brexit<\/a> Economy analysis leaked to Buzzfeed.<\/p>\n<p>This was NOT from Treasury    Or Team Hammond. <\/p>\n<p>This was DexEU analysis. A department captained by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidDavisMP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DavidDavisMP<\/a> &#8211; an arch Brexiteer.<\/p>\n<p>It comes from one of their own. As a warning to their own: tread softly.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peter Foster (@pmdfoster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pmdfoster\/status\/958253261475274752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The explosive report is a tough pill to swallow \u2013 especially after Brexit Secretary David Davis tried to hoodwink the public in 2016 over what economic impact studies the Tory government had actually carried out. (Spoiler alert: there was none).<\/p>\n<p>Davis suggested that dozens had been carried out <em>\u201cin excruciating detail,\u201d<\/em> but after a Commons vote would force him to publish the assessments, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/412131-davis-economy-brexit-lie\/\">he revealed that the impact studies did not exist after all. <\/a>Instead, DExEU published a series of broad \u201csectoral analyses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/417342-brexit-leaked-eu-report\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leaked government analysis on the impact of leaving the EU has detailed how Britain\u2019s economy will be worse off after Brexit \u2013 no matter what trade deal is struck with the bloc. The report, \u2018EU Exit Analysis \u2013 Cross Whitehall Briefing\u2019, outlines three of the most likely scenarios, and brings only bad news for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}