Or, for a slightly more balanced piece of work that isn’t an obvious lobbying position ahead of next year’s UK-EU negotiations, here’s a piece from the House of Commons Library charting the UK’s total EU and non-EU exports, adjusted for inflation.
https://researchbriefings.files.parl...1/CBP-7851.pdf
It includes this useful cautionary note on pages 10-11:
Quote:
UK goods exports to the EU have not recovered to pre-Brexit levels. Goods exports to the EU exceeded £170 billion in 2017, 2018 and 2019 but have not done so in any calendar year since and were £153 billion in 2023 (see table below).
It is worth noting that UK exports of goods to the EU were growing quite slowly
before Brexit and the pandemic, being only 9% higher in 2019 than 2010 in
real terms.
Goods exports to non-EU countries also remain below pre-Brexit levels. These
exceeded £180 billion in 2017, 2018 and 2019 but have been below £170 billion
in every calendar year since then. They were £162 billion in 2023.
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Graph from page 10:
It’s quite clear that the UK’s export fortunes to the EU and elsewhere, while not moving in lockstep, generally go hand in hand. Almost as if things other than Brexit affect it all. Funny that.