The Davis Downside Dossier: The 32 upsides of Brexit

Yorkshire Bylines

Welcome to the Davis Upside Dossier compiled by Yorkshire Bylines. What began as an attempt to show just how mistaken David Davis was in October 2016 when, as the minister responsible, he told MPs “there will be no downside to Brexit at all, and considerable upsides,” has now become something of a cause célèbre. The 32 upsides in this document were compiled by Yorkshire Bylines from January 1 2021 until September 30 2024. Yorkshire Bylines also compiled downsides, which, over the same period, numbered 2000. These can be found in a separate file. Note, because the dossier uses a database and includes both downsides and upsides, entry numbers now use the database key. Regardless of how they’re sorted, each entry is identifiable by a unique number, which in most cases will be different to the entry numbers in the old list.. We knew David Davis was wrong but we underestimated just how wrong he was.