In October 2016, four months after the UK's referendum on leaving the EU, David Davis, then Secretary of State for Exiting the EU, said "There will be no downside to Brexit, only a considerable upside." In 2021, after the UK had left the EU, Yorkshire Bylines began cataloguing
the downsides, with
the first entries dating from late
2020. In early 2023, the famous dossier added its 1,000th entry.
To mark the occasion, Yorkshire Bylines
has converted it into spreadsheet format
with some simple but quite arbitrary
filtering. So, for example, if your interest
is in financial services you can see the
downsides grouped in that category and
then further refined to show the impact
on banking, insurance, the stock market
or The City. A word of caution. The dossier
is not, and has never pretended to be, a
reference work on Brexit. We have
simply culled items that have appeared
in the news that seemed to us to be
downsides.
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