Furious hotelier slams Commons for costing UK billions with months of Brexit protest – Daily Express

Mr Kenwright sat down with Nigel Farage on GB News segment Talking Pints to discuss the effects that Brexit and the pandemic have had on his business. The hotelier insisted the lengthy row between members of the House of Commons and Boris Johnson over the terms of the withdrawal deal in the run-up to December 2019 cost the UK billions. He also noted going from uncertainty about the future relationship the UK would have with the European Union to the coronavirus pandemic delivered a severe blow to business.

Mr Kenwright said: "I think the start of it all going wrong for me was Brexit, so that is when it really went wrong for me.

"Obviously the country voted to leave and I absolutely agree with that.

"I think where we made a huge mistake as politicians are that we had the House of Parliament going against the Government"

"That spelt a disaster to the income and investors that come" the hotelier added before Nigel jumped in to take a jab at how the Government kept to their word about the new agreement for the UK to break away from the EU after "three and a half years of effectively Parliament not honouring the result".

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MPs repeatedly clashed with Boris Johnson since he took over Number 10 with Theresa May over his negotiations with the European Union.

Mr Kenwright continued: "Well, it was cascading onwards wasn't it so that noise got more and more sinister as time went on and as parliament went against the Government.

"I think it was in the August, it was literally like you could hear the screeching of the breaks of the money stopping coming to the country

"We are a small country but we are a massive fundraiser, a lot of money gets parked in this country, that stopped pretty much overnight."

He continued "Until the election was won on the 12or 13 of December, when that happened then it was well everyone is away, so in January don't worry the money going to start coming in again.

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He said: "In the long term it is the case that Brexit has a bigger impact than the pandemic."

Mr Hughes's comments came after the OBR said the cost of living could increase at its fastest rate seen for 30 years.

He also stated that recent data has shown the impact of the UK leaving the European Union has been "broadly consistent" with the OBR's assumption that leaving the EU could "reduce our long-run GDP by around 4 percent."

He added: "We think that the effect of the pandemic will reduce that (GDP) output by a further 2 percent."

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