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For many, this summer will be the first time they have visited Europe since Brexit, and with airports in disarray, driving via ferry or Eurotunnel is an increasingly appealing option.

If you plan to drive your car to France or further afield within the EU, there are several points to consider to ensure your vehicle is compliant with post-Brexit rules.

All drivers must carry their UK driving licence while driving in the EU. If it is a photocard licence (the most common type), you do not need to request an international driving permit (IDP) to drive in the EU, Switzerland, Iceland or Liechtenstein.

However, if you have an older-style paper driving licence or a driving licence issued in Gibraltar, Guernsey, Jersey or the Isle of Man, you may need an IDP. Check with the embassy of the country you are visiting.

There are three types of IDP (1926, 1949, 1968) if one is required, you can apply at a Post Office for 5.50.

Displaying a UK sticker on the rear of your vehicle is required by law if you are driving in some countries (replacing older GB stickers since September 2021), such as Spain, Cyprus and Malta.

You must also display a UK sticker if your number plate has any of the following:

However, if your number plate includes the UK identifier with the Union flag, you do not need a UK sticker to drive in many countries, such as France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Portugal. Again, check with the relevant embassy for requirements.

You also need to take your log book (V5C) showing your most recent/current UK address and your insurance certificate.

Some hire and lease companies do not allow their vehicles to be driven outside the UK check permissions before planning a trip abroad.

If they do allow the car to be driven outside the UK, youll need a VE103 certificate to prove that you have permission. This can be applied from through RAC Motoring Services and British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association and cost beteween 8-15.

Your vehicle must be taxed in the UK, have a valid MOT and be insured in the UK, including minimum third party cover to drive in the EU (including Ireland). You do not need a Green Card to prove your insurance, just your original insurance certificate.

Road rules vary by country, so check the laws of your destination, from speed limits to overtaking and parking. Both the AA and RAC list up-to-date requirements.

France requires all occupants of the car to carry their passport, as well as taking a reflective jacket which must be accessible without exiting the car. A warning triangle is also compulsory for anything bigger than a motorcycle.

Certain areas of France require vehicles to display a CritAir vignette a clean air windscreen sticker to identify the cars emissions and potentially restrict access. Lower emission cars are sometimes given preferential parking and driving conditions check the area in which you plan to drive.

Devices such as Sat Navs that can detect and alert drivers to speed cameras are illegal in France and drivers can face a fine of up to 1,500 for possession, even if not in use.

It is illegal to use headphones, ear buds or Bluetooth devices while driving, but completely hands-free mobile phone usage is allowed.

The maximum legal blood alcohol level for drivers in France is 0.05 per cent, compared to 0.08 per cent in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. There is no longer a legal requirement to carry a disposable breathalyser in the car.

Dogs must be secured by a harness or kept in a cage when being transported by car.

Many European motorways are toll roads. You can either choose lanes that allow you to pay with coins or cards (although not all foreign cards are accepted so have a supply of cash), or automated lanes that require a tag in your vehicle.

Emovis tags have a 10 application fee, 8 annual fee, 5 monthly service fee and refundable 20 security deposit, plus toll fees. They provide automatic payment for toll roads in France, Spain and Portugal. Discounts are sometimes available through providers such as Eurotunnel.

The AA advises using a hire company thats a member of the European car rental conciliation service scheme.

It is recommended to print your driving licence record and get a code valid for 21 days from the DVLAs share driving licence service to give the hire company access to your driving licence record.

Watch out for charges for crossing an international border.

If you are involved in a road traffic accident involving your own car in Europe, you should first contact your insurer, even if you dont want to make a claim.

Contact the police and ask for a copy of the report, and a translator if necessary. As with an accident in the UK, take photographs of the incident, including details of the other vehicles involved, exchange insurance details, take names and addresses of witnesses and dont admit liability.

In the event of an accident in a rental car you must inform the hire car supplier and local authorities within 24 hours. Its important to understand your insurance policy and whether it covers road traffic accidents involving a vehicle, and legal costs.

Your insurance company might give you a European Accident Statement form to get an agreed statement of facts. Only sign it when youre sure that you understand the situation and ask for a copy of the accident statement.

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Driving in Europe after Brexit: A checklist for UK drivers this summer, from stickers to the correct permits - iNews

ThiseBook, produced by VoxEU/CEPR and UK in a Changing Europe, brings together leading academic researchers on trade, immigration and political economy to assess what we have learned, 18 months on from its implementation, about the impacts of Brexit on the UK economy

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Foreword

IntroductionJonathan Portes

1 A short history of the political economy of BrexitThiemo Fetzer

2 Brexit Britain in a changing global economyAdam S. Posen and Lucas Rengifo-Keller

3 The impact of Brexit on UKEU tradeRebecca Freeman, Kalina Manova, Thomas Prayer and Thomas Sampson

4 Post-Brexit imports, supply chains, andthe effect on consumer pricesJan David Bakker, Nikhil Datta, Josh De Lyon, Luisa Opitz, and Dilan Yang

5 The price impacts of trade agreementsMeredith A. Crowley, Lu Han, and Thomas Prayer

6 Brexit and UK services tradeJun Du and Oleksandr Shepotylo

7 The economics of UK financial services post BrexitSarah Hall

8 The economics of the UKs post-Brexit immigration systemJonathan Portes

9 How is the end of free movement affecting the low-wage labour forcein the UK?Madeleine Sumption

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The Economics of Brexit: What Have We Learned? | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal - voxeu.org

It is what they want you to think. It is what they will spend their entire lives trying to make you think.

Because, in their pea brains, the bloated, unelected, protectionist mob in Brussels are our true leaders.

Never mind that most Europeans think the bloc will fall apart in 20 years. Never mind that Covid has shown many EU countries the bloc prevents them from looking after their own national interests.

Of course, global inflation, the war in Ukraine and the current cost of living crisis are a gift for Remoaners. Look whats happening, they gloat. Its because of Brexit.

And they are being aided in that nonsensical assertion by panicking airline bosses who are screaming that the current chaos is all down to Brexit, when its 100 per cent down to their own incompetence for sacking tens of thousands of staff during Covid (whilst trousering millions from Government) and failing to re-hire quickly enough (because they are offering crap money).

But Brexit IS working even the former Chief Brexit negotiator Lord Frost says it is, despite the EUs best efforts to try to wreck it.

With the war in Ukraine and the pandemic, he says it is hard to see what, if any, changes in trade are down to Brexit.

But that is not good enough for Remainers who, in tandem with our pro-Brussels Establishment, are forever shouting that everything bad in Britain is down to Brexit. They have to paint it as a disaster so they can try to reverse it.

But let us compare the growth of our economy since 2016 to the first quarter of 2022 with Europes Big Four using IMF data: UK, 6.8 percent; France, 6.2 percent; Germany, 5.5 percent; Italy, 2.1 percent; and Spain, 5 percent.

Not bad for the pathetic little country our unpatriotic Remainers would have you believe Britain now is.

Yes, world events have prevented us from moving as quickly as we should have done to capitalise on Brexit but we HAVE done scores of trade deals and more are in the pipeline.

And remember, while the EU faffed about during the pandemic, we rolled out a lifesaving vaccine programme.

And Brussels response to that was to try to restrict vaccines coming into this country which could ultimately have killed people.

While the EU dithered over what to do about Ukraine we were already in there helping. Again, the EU followed us.

And after we took back our sovereignty, last week we saw even that being interfered with by a European court in Strasbourg, where an anonymous judge overturned an order to deport migrants to Rwanda even though British courts had ruled the order was lawful.

Hell, even Prince Charles seems to be getting in on Sabotage Brexit by calling the Rwanda plan appalling pretty damned insulting to the Rwandan people who he is currently visiting as future head of the Commonwealth.

So, what is his plan to beat the traffickers and stop those deadly migrant crossings?

Oh, hang on, he has not got one, and Boris was right to rebuke him for his (and others) condescending attitudes about a totally revitalised country which is now being called the Singapore of Africa.

For months Boris has been under the cosh over Partygate which has allowed Remainers to crawl out of the woodwork and re-start their campaign to drag us back into the EU.

But Boris has to stop that. His still substantial majority was won on the back of Brexit and he must start maximising its potential and shouting about it from the rooftops.

He cannot allow EU cheerleaders to wrongly paint it as a disaster in order to reverse it. If he does, THAT is will do it for him... not Partygate.

If there was an Olympic gold medal for guts, Sharron Davies would have one.

Despite a vile torrent of death threats and abuse from trans activists she was one of a brave cabal of women who stuck their heads above the parapet and campaigned to have transwomen banned from womens swimming.

Now the sports governing body, Fina, has done it.

In this woke new world in which we live, gutsy people like Sharron who put fairness and the greater good above fear of personal attack are rare. But thank God for them.

The University of East Anglia has issued a so-called trigger warning to students about Saint George slaying the dragon. They were told that the story contains descriptions of torture and violence.

Who is going to tell the wokey little snowflakes that dragons do not exist and what they are frightened of is a fairy story?

At the Tories Summer Party this week, one unnamed donor forked out 120,000 to have dinner with Theresa May, Boris Johnson and David Cameron.

As all three hate each other, I would have paid just to sit at the next table in case one of them threw a punch.

Another week, another story about whingeing GPs. This week the Royal College of GPs polled 1,400 of its members and 42 per cent said they would be quitting in the next five years.

What is wrong with them? Six out of ten GPs already work just three days a week and, unlike a couple of decades ago, they can choose not to work evenings or weekends.

They earn between 90,000 and 150,000 a year (some even more).

Yes, of course they are busy and I have no doubt the job is stressful, but so are the jobs of millions of other people who earn a lot less AND work weekends.

What did these doctors expect when they went into the business of saving lives... a relaxing, stress-free nine to five existence?

Fergie has had a lot of therapy down the years and it is a wonder none of her therapists have taught her the value of stillness. Especially when it comes to her face.

This week she was at a memorial for the Queens cousin Lady Elizabeth Anson but, on seeing a camera, her facial expression morphed into that of a clown who had just caught a glimpse of his best mate Coco across the circus ring and was saying an exaggerated Hello.

Not a good look at a memorial service.

How in Gods name did EastEnders Jessie Wallace get just a slap on the wrist for kneeing a policeman in the privates?

The copper, who was trying to arrest the drunken soap star fell to his knees in agony.

Had you or I done that we would have been charged and thrown in a cell overnight to calm down.

But Wallace was let off with a conditional caution. Really? Is that all assaulting a police officer is worth? Or is there one rule for TV stars and another for the rest of us?

Jessie Wallace has twice been suspended from EastEnders for her behaviour. Now aged 50 she is still brawling and screaming in the street.

As for gutless EastEnders bosses well they have copped out too. Their star is back on set earning her big fat salary because they clearly think ratings are more important than thuggish behaviour.

Rupert Murdoch, 91, and Jerry Hall, 65, have reportedly split after just six years of marriage. Well, who would have thought THAT would not work out?

Still, I am sure Jerry will recover. She walked away with a multi-million pound settlement after her 22-year relationship with Mick Jagger.

Now with a 14billion fortune, I am sure Rupe, as she calls him, will ensure Jerry has a happy retirement in gratitude for his heady years with the long-legged supermodel.

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When will the Remoaners finally admit that Brexit is working? asks CAROLE MALONE - Express

Mr Sefcovic said the UK should be prepared for the worst as the EU moves to block action by the UK Government.

He told Sky News journalist Beth Rigby: We will be permanently pointing towards the huge advantages of our approach over unilateral proposals that came from the UK.

Mr Sefcovic insisted that the approach taken by the EU was the correct decision and that the trade checks held huge advantages.

He added: We really have the interests of the people in Northern Ireland in our heart.

We absolutely want to make sure that they would benefit from the access to the single market, from having the possibility to export to 500 million people.

The Vice President continued: We want to provide them with legal certainty, with clarity, with stability.

With these goals, we are ready to work with the UK Government and with all political leaders in Northern Ireland.

Despite opposing the UKs proposals to adjust the Brexit deal, Mr Sefcovic said the EU was still open to discuss the matter.

The Northern Ireland protocol enforces checks on goods travelling between Great Britain and Northern Ireland to allow an open border with Ireland, which remains within the EUs single market and customs union.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss proposed alterations to the Brexit deal in a newly published Northern Ireland Protocol Bill.

The Government has justified unilateral action to restore the power-sharing Government in Northern Ireland.

The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is pushing for the legislation to be passed before it enters a new power-sharing executive.

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, DUP leader, welcomed the protocol bill and told BBC radios Good Morning Ulster: Parliament can either choose to go forward with the [Good Friday] agreement and the political institutions and stability in Northern Ireland, or the protocol, but it cant have both.

So what do YOU think? Should the UK be worried about EU legal retaliation over the Northern Ireland Protocol row? Vote in our poll and leave your thoughts in the comment section below.

Former chancellor George Osborne said the UK would be back in the EU within the next 20 years but a political commentator has slammed this claim stating that the EU may not even exist in 20 years time.

Political commentator Benjamin Loughnane told TalkTV: Yeah, well I mean George Osborne says we'll be back in 20 years.

That is if the EU even exists in 20 years, I don't think it will, certainly not in the form that it currently exists.

Because if it does then that will be a shocking lack of growth, for an organisation which desperately needs to reform itself or go bust effectively.

The EU was formed in 1993 after the signing of the Maastricht Treaty and currently has 27 members.

The UK left the EU on January 31, 2020, four years after the Brexit referendum.

Mr Osborne claims that the decision to leave has harshly impacted the British economy.

However, Mr Loughnane said: The reason the economy is in a shambles isn't because of Brexit it's because of lockdown, let's face it we've had two years of the economy completely shut down.

How can you turn around and blame that on Brexit, it is absolutely farcical.

So what do YOU think? Will the EU exist in 20 years' time?Vote in our poll andleave your thoughts in the comment section below.

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Corks long history of trade with Europe has helped cushion the region from the worst effects of Brexit in several key sectors including pharmaceuticals, food and drink and agriculture, a new study has found.

The University College Cork (UCC) report, Cork and The Brexit Effect is the first study of Brexits longer-term consequences for the Cork region and highlights both the challenges and opportunities for Leeside posed by Brexit.

Report editor Mary C Murphy, UCC Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration, said the report found the sectors in the region which bore the brunt of the Brexit fallout included agriculture, finance, and industry which all suffered to varying degrees.

However, the report also found that Corks physical proximity to the European continent has facilitated a strong European focused and facing economic and trading outlook, particularly in the pharma/biotech, life sciences, marine, energy, food and drink, agriculture and fishing and financial sectors.

The report, which will be launched on Friday at UCC by Taoiseach Michel Martin, noted that while clusters in some of these sectors had been resilient in meeting the challenge of Brexit, others such as tourism have been more exposed

In the first two years after the UK vote to leave the EU, Brexit impacted significantly on tourism and this was linked to a shift in Sterling-Euro exchange rate and it was exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, noted Dr Murphy.

However, the Cork region was comparatively less affected by shifting tourist numbers than other parts of Ireland, the report found. It said an important component of Cork citys attractiveness to tourists was its reputation as one of Irelands leading arts and culture hot spots.

Cork, as the EUs second-largest English-speaking city, has the potential to become an attractive location for international students who, but for Brexit, might otherwise have chosen Britain for their studies, the report found.

The Port of Cork has seen the number of direct shipping routes to Europe increase as more and more producers seek to avoid the land bridge through the UK, the 32-page report also found.

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Cork's history of trade with Europe 'cushions' region from worst of Brexit effects - The Irish Times

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ouse prices in London have risen slower than any other region in the UK since the Brexit referendum six years ago, with the capital hit the hardest by a continuous stream of disruption.

The cost of the average home in the capital now 529,737 has risen by 12.7 per cent since July 2016 when average prices were 466,713. London growth has been far outpaced by the rest of the country and is half the rate of the second slowest region, the northeast.

This is due to a set of conspiring factors, according to experts at Knight Frank, from eye-wateringly high house prices in London compared to other areas, to Brexit uncertainty and the escape to the country during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Brexit referendum came in the second half of the post-global financial crisis property cycle. London had ferociously led the countrys housing market recovery after the crash of 2008 and peaked with annual house price growth of as much as 20 per cent in the year to June 2014.

This overheated market, dubbed a property price bubble, started to slow following the introduction of stamp duty hikes at the end of 2014 which hit the most expensive parts of the country. Brexit compounded this cooling as overseas investors took stock of the political situation and British people felt uncertain about the economy.

The disparity between the pace of house price growth in London and the regions became even more exaggerated when the pandemic swept across the country as buyers went in search of more space for their money encouraged by the Chancellors emergency stamp duty holiday.

Londons underperformance pre-dates Covid but was accentuated by the escape to country trend. It has primarily been a result of the affordability squeeze in the capital, with more affordable parts of the UK experiencing stronger price growth in recent years, says Tom Bill, head of residential research for Knight Frank.

The region with the fastest house price growth over the last six years has been the East Midlands (42.3 per cent), followed by the North-west (38.7 per cent) and the West Midlands (37.7 per cent). The expensive south-east commuter belt was the third slowest (25.9 per cent).

This divide between the most expensive pockets of Britain versus the cheaper ones, is also evident within the polycentric London market with Havering, Barking & Dagenham and Bexley, recording the fastest house price growth over the last six years of all boroughs, with rises of 26 per cent, 25.4 per cent and 24.7 per cent, respectively.

Prices in the luxury core of the capital (known as prime central London and covering areas such as Mayfair, Knightsbridge and Belgravia) have fallen 14 per cent since Brexit, demonstrating a fall in overseas investment due to the political uncertainty of Brexit and the travel ban during the pandemic.

Bill also puts this down to the emergence of a more adverse tax landscape and compounded by political volatility that followed the close general election result of June 2017, when the Conservatives Theresa May won narrowly over Labours Jeremy Corbyn.

Prime central London remains in steady recovery mode, which will be accelerated by the return of meaningful numbers of international buyers, says Bill.

Looking to the future he adds, The pandemic magnified the trend of people moving across the country as buyers searched for more space but in five years time, I imagine more will be moving out of London because you get more bang for your buck rather than in anticipation of further lockdowns.

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Brexit: how London house prices have changed in the six years since the UK voted to leave the EU - Evening Standard

Yesterday was Brexit day, a chance to celebrate six years of the UK smashing it on the world stage.

Well not quite, as the government will not produce any assessments of whether Brexit has been a success, Jacob Rees-Mogg has revealed.

It comes as a video from 2016 has come back to haunt Brexiters, but more of that later.

Mogg also launched a direct attack on a report which said leaving the European Union had damaged the UK economy.

He said the Resolution Foundations findings were the regurgitation of Project Fear.

Also, his comments about a Brexit benefit were lampooned online.

He claimed that leaving the EU means we cant have the pesky Europeans telling us how to standardise our chargers.

It comes as Labours David Lammy listed the statistics that prove Brexit is a failure.

However, he also reiterated Labours position that it would not seek to rejoin the EU or re-enter the Customs Union or the Single Market.

But, he said, the party would look to secure practical solutions to reduce any checks to their absolute minimum by pursuing an agreement on food and agricultural standards, sharing trade data and using a risk based approach for goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain.

Best for Britain shared the video and listed what we really have instead of what we were told would happen when we left the EU and became free.

Please watch this video from Leave.Eu in 2016 and compare it to how you think we are getting on.

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Watch: 2016 Vote Leave video is compared to current state of Brexit Britain - The London Economic

The former deputy leader of the Conservative Party said there is no way the Prime Minister will change his stance on Brexit, or become any less stubborn about remaining in office, as a consequence of the two byelection losses in Wakefield, and Tiverton and Honiton. He forecasted a bleak future for the UK, suggesting Britains standing in the world would become a major issue as the PM loses the respect of his peers and electorate but remains intransigent in the face of calls for his resignation.

Lord Heseltine told Sky News: There is no doubt at all that the buck stops here and [Boris] is the man that got Brexit done, actually he got the British people done as a consequence of Brexit.

There is no way that Boris is actually going to change his stance on Brexit so were just heading for more and more trouble.

More and more conflict. More and more difficulties in Ireland, in Scotland, and in Britains standing in the world.

So, there is no doubt at all that Boris is associated with that major issue.

But Im afraid whats even more toxic, and associated with it, are the lies.

The lies that persuaded people to vote for Brexit. The lies about Partygate.

All these things are now associated with the name of the Prime Minister.

So, I dont think, either of his own volition or in any other way, he is going to change.

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The Prime Minister, who is currently in Rwanda for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, vowed to "keep going" today.

Mr Johnson said, from the Rwandan capital of Kigali: "It's absolutely true we've had some tough by-election results. They've been, I think, a reflection of a lot of things, but we've got to recognise voters are going through a tough time at the moment.

"I think, as a Government, I've got to listen to what people are saying - in particular to the difficulties people are facing over the cost of living, which, I think, for most people is the number one issue.

"We've got to recognise there is more we've got to do and we certainly will - we will keep going, addressing the concerns of people until we get through this patch."

His comments followed not only the two defeats at byelections but the subsequent resignation of Cabinet minister Oliver Dowden.

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Britains cost of living crisis is being made worse by Brexit dragging down the countrys growth potential and costing workers hundreds of pounds a year in lost pay, new research claims.

The Resolution Foundation thinktank and academics from the London School of Economics said the average worker in Britain was now on course to suffer more than 470 in lost pay each year by 2030 after rising living costs are taken into account, compared with a remain vote in 2016.

In a report six years on from the referendum, the researchers said Brexit was damaging the competitiveness of UK exports on the world stage just as companies are forced to deal with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic and Russias war in Ukraine pushing inflation to historic levels.

A less open Great Britain is expected to be poorer and less productive, it said.

Official figures on Wednesday showed a fresh rise in the inflation rate from 9% in April to 9.1% last month, as surging petrol prices and the rising cost of a weekly shop ramps up the pressure on struggling families. The Bank of England has warned the inflation rate could reach 11% by October.

As the government attempted to face down rail unions on Tuesday amid the most widespread train strikes since the 1980s, ministers were forced to defend inflation-busting increases planned for the state pension while ordering pay restraint for workers in the public sector.

The former Conservative chancellor Ken Clarke said Britain was in the grip of the worst economic crises since at least 1979, telling the BBC that a recession was almost inevitable. We are, I think, almost certainly going to go into recession in the next couple of years, he said. The Bank of England has had to start tackling inflation, which has been allowed to get completely out of hand.

Boris Johnson has warned workers against asking for bigger pay rises to prevent a 1970s-style wage-price spiral driving inflation higher, in sharp contrast to October last year when the prime minister suggested Brexit could help create a high-wage, high-productivity economy of the future.

However, the report from the Resolution Foundation and LSE said Brexit would weigh heavily on productivity gains over the coming years up to 2030, while suggesting that higher import costs were adding to pain for household finances.

The research estimated labour productivity a key measure of economic output per hour of work would be reduced by 1.3% by 2030 because of a decline in openness of the British economy after Brexit, equivalent to losing a quarter of efficiency gains achieved over the past decade.

Ministers have argued bigger pay rises for UK workers would only be sustainable if backed by productivity gains. However, with the expected decline in the efficiency of the British economy after Brexit, the academics said inflation-adjusted pay was now set for a 1.8% fall by 2030. It said this was equivalent to the loss of 472 a worker, a year.

The reports authors included the LSE academic Swati Dhingra, an outspoken Brexit critic picked by the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to sit on the Bank of Englands interest-rate setting monetary policy committee from August.

The report appeared to undermine the governments argument that Brexit and its plans to level up the economy to boost prosperity outside London and the south-east, with researchers finding the north-east of England would be hardest hit by leaving the EU.

With a bigger industrial sector and higher exposure to the EU market, it said the region would see a 2.7% fall in manufacturing output by 2030 compared with a scenario in which the UK voted to remain in the EU in 2016.

Although the report found that exports to the EU had not been as heavily hit by Brexit under the terms of Johnsons trade deal with Brussels since the start of last year, it warned overall the UK would become less open and less competitive.

Exports to the EU are expected to be 38% lower than they would have been inside the EU by 2030, with a further 16% decline due to forgone further integration with the EU over that period.

Torsten Bell, the chief executive of the Resolution Foundation, said Brexit would make recovering from the Covid pandemic and getting wages to rise sustainably after the cost of living crisis more difficult.

He said: Ten percent inflation is painful, whether you drive a train, commute by train, or have nothing to do with trains. It would always have been hard to cope with, but it is far more so for families coming on the back of 15 years of stagnant wages.

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The sustainable route out of this is stronger, productivity-led, wage growth. Covid-19 and Brexit dont make that any easier to achieve, but the UK has considerable economic strengths and we urgently need a renewed economic strategy that builds on them.

A government spokesperson said exports had increased in the three months to April and were above pre-pandemic levels. Since we left the European Union, we have begun seizing new opportunities to improve UK regulation for businesses and consumers through plans to enhance competition and harness new technology.

We will introduce the Brexit freedoms bill which will enable the government to amend, repeal and replace retained EU law, helping us to create a new pro-growth framework that gives businesses the confidence to invest and create jobs.

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Brexit is making cost of living crisis worse, new study claims - The Guardian

Sources close to Mr Rees-Mogg have said that he is keen on people understanding the extent of EU law still applies in this country."

The source added: It is about people seeing the full extent of all EU laws on our books, which Parliament had no say in, to build momentum for the Brexit freedoms bill.

Previously, when we were in the EU we couldn't do anything about these regs, but now we can, inviting MPs and the public to see what's there, what adds cost to businesses and consumers, what we should repeal.

The process of ending EU red tape has been held up for two years because of the Covid pandemic and lockdown when Government time was taken up getting the country through the crisis.

But with Boris Johnsons Government reset following his victory in a vote of confidence by Tory MPs, completing Brexit freedoms has been identified as one of the top priorities.

When he was given the job of maximising Brexit opportunities, Jacob Rees-Mogg appealed to Express readers and the wider public for ideas on Brussels bureaucratic regulations which could be scrapped.

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Last month, Express.co.uk revealed that he had received more than 2,000 ideas from the public and businesses.

These included allowing fracking and abolishing petty rules on vans and vacuum cleaners among hundreds of other suggestions.

One idea which the Government has enacted quickly is the scrapping of the lawn mower premium on all motorists, an EU regulation which would have seen motor insurance increase for everyone by 50 to cover the cost of driving lawn mowers.

Tory Brexiteer veteran MP Peter Bone, whose private members bill ended the lawn mower tax, said: Im delighted that Jacob Rees*Mogg is to set out his plans.

He is a real rottweiler when it comes to tearing up unnecessary rules and regulations and I cant think of a better person to be in charge of this.

Of course I have already got rid of one regulation on the lawn mower but there are an enormous amount more to be taken off our statute books.

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In an interview in February, shortly after taking the Brexit role, Mr Rees-Mogg told the Sunday Express: Government is not the centre of all knowledge and wisdom. Actually, there is a much greater wisdom with the British people as a whole.

That is why I am so keen for the British people to tell me what it is in their daily life that the Government does that makes their life harder. And if I can, I will push to get rid of that.

If you want to get involved with your ideas you can email Mr Rees-Mogg with ideas on publiccorrespondence@cabinetoffice.gov.uk or send by mail to Jacob Rees-Mogg, Cabinet Office, 70, Whitehall, London SW1A 2AS.

Mark your correspondent "Brexit Opportunity Ideas" and tell Mr Rees-Mogg you are an Express reader.

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Brexit Britain still has 'more than 2000 EU rules' - but FINALLY there's a plan to fix it - Express