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Look beyond Brexit for solution to UK growth
More than half a century of slow growth in the UK, culminating in the 2008 financial crisis and austerity, has left Britain grappling with an identity crisis. Post-empire, the country has been unable to decide whether to be small and open, or small and closed. The most obvious sign of this was the battle about the UK’s departure from the European Union. Enlargement of the EU, which had led to the influx of eastern Europeans, was no longer welcome after 2008. Immigration, leaving race aside, was unwanted. Since the latest inflow was a consequence of membership of the EU, and, hence beyond British control, Brexit ... (full story)