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The OBR can't have factored in the anticipated new trading opportunities, then. How could they? It's a bit hard to anticipate exactly how businesses will seek to maximise these opportunities. We will only know that when it happens.
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The OBR has not factored in the sunlit upland "opportunities" because they don't exist (except in your imagination).
How the UK-Australia free trade agreement is worth 200 times less than EU membership
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The government’s own estimates suggest that the Australia deal will only boost GDP by 0.02 per cent, compared to a 4 per cent loss from Brexit.
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For those who wold like some background information on why Brexit is never going to be a success economically:
Remember, if all you can do is to champion the ability to mitigate the losses then you have already lost the argument.