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Liz Webster: Brexit energy trap: Britain’s energy...

🚨 Brexit energy trap: Britain’s energy costs are strangling growth. PwC warns we risk missing out on £250 billion in economic value over the next decade unless we fix chronically high electricity prices. This is the Brexit energy trap: lost EU market integration + our broken gas-marginal pricing system = some of the highest costs in the developed world, even when renewables are cheap. We need a proper integrated energy strategy, not more decline.

Liz Webster: Ten years on, the Brexit evidence overwhelming...

🔥 Ten years on, the Brexit evidence overwhelming. Brexit was not a temporary disruption on the road to prosperity. It was an act of economic self-harm. The promised gains, less red tape, booming global trade and lower immigration, have not materialised. Instead we have: 📉 Lower investment 📉 Weaker productivity 📉 More expensive trade 📉 Lower growth 📈 Higher net migration You can argue about the exact size of the damage, but you cannot honestly argue there has been no damage.

Liz Webster: 🔥 The great irony of the population...

🔥 The great irony of the population debate/Malthusianism is that for decades a generation of policymakers feared Britain had too many people and explored ways of reducing numbers. Half a century later, Britain 🇬🇧 faces a population crisis of not enough people. For decades so many citizens have struggled to afford to have the families they want. Now the large aging babyboom generation continues to resent immigration needed to keep the country going.
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