Business and Economics

Huw Pill said Brexit has reduced trade between the UK and Europe which has had a knock-on effect on labour, productivity and prices.

Carnegie UK is calling for Gross Domestic Wellbeing (GDWe) to be used as an alternative metric to GDP.

One CEO said adopting the four-day week was “one of the most transformative initiatives we’ve seen in the history of the company".

The Tories have "failed to secure our economy and get it growing which has left us exposed to any external shocks", Abena Oppong-Asare said.

"The best guarantor of Brexit is an economy that grows. Its biggest risk is one that doesn’t", CBI director general Tony Danker will say.

"Brexit will result in the UK’s trade intensity being 15 per cent lower in the long run than if the UK had remained in the EU."

Simon Spurrell said the government is "so anti-Europe they won’t even discuss getting a better deal sorted out".

In 2016, the year of the Brexit referendum, British stocks were collectively worth 1.5 trillion US dollars more than those listed in Paris.

"The need for tax rises and spending cuts wouldn't be there if Brexit hadn't reduced the economy's potential output so much."