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Originally Posted by jfman

I don’t see how people at the bottom benefit from Brexit. It’s not like the money will be used to take people out of poverty, reform Universal Credit, solve the housing crisis, increase the minimum wage, or any meaningful steps to benefit people in poverty in this country.

Lower economic growth, lower tax revenues and lower investment aren’t going to help our poorest.

You’ve hit on the conundrum here. Higher minimum wage feeds through to higher prices. The other items listed are, as you imply, matters for government to fix (fat chance.)