‘What are the benefits of Brexit?’ – Dorset Echo

OurMP Richard Drax has been a keen advocate of Brexit.

So far the news stories are telling us that the deal the UK has agreed does not cover services (70% of our economy) or the arts (one of our strengths).

Bureaucracy was supposed to be less but seems much worse.

And the requirements for selling UK fish to Europe or mail order sales to Europe or taking horses to race in Europe seem not to have been properly thought out.

UK language students are having to pay for expensive visas and prove an adequate income for their year studying abroad.

We hear almost nothing about the positive side of Brexit - new markets, simpler regulations, less bureaucracy.

The UK vaccination success is sometimes cited but it seems to be more about the vaccine task force than about a set of different regulations.

Richard Drax writes a regular column for your paper. Could he be asked please to write a piece giving some positive examples of how leaving the EU has helped our economy, as a counterweight to the bad news stories?

Or is the news universally bad?

STEPHEN BENDLE

Beech Road Weymouth

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'What are the benefits of Brexit?' - Dorset Echo