Brexit will cost the UK economy up to 30 times more than the country hopes to gain back from securing a new trade deal with Trump, new official figures suggest. The UK's Department for International Trade on Sunday evening published its objectives for talks with Donald Trump's administration ahead of negotiations getting underway later this month. The department's analysis estimates that a new trade deal with the US, which is only possible due to Brexit, would boost the UK economy by £3.4 billion meaning an increase to the UK economy of 0.1% t0 0.2% over the next ten to fifteen years. However, this figure is dwarfed ... (full story)