A Bank of England-backed study published as The Economic Impact of Brexit estimated that, had the referendum produced a different result, the UK economy would now be around 6% larger, with some methodologies suggesting the gap could be closer to 8%. The research, co-authored by Stanford economist Nick Bloom alongside Bank of England economists, attributes roughly half of that difference to the uncertainty following the referendum and the remainder to the trade barriers introduced after 2021.
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