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📢 ECPS Interview / Ten Years on with Brexit
🇬🇧 Professor Portes: Brexit Has Not Solved Britain’s Problems; It Made Them Worse
✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli
📌 As the UK approaches the tenth anniversary of the 2016 referendum, Professor Jonathan Portes (@jdportes) offers a sober, evidence-based reassessment of Brexit’s long-term consequences. Challenging both political rhetoric and retrospective myth-making, he argues that “the UK still confronts the same fundamental problems it did 10 years ago”—but now from a more constrained and exposed position.
📊 Drawing on a decade of research, Professor Portes shows how Brexit has led to weakened trade integration, reduced investment, and slower growth, broadly confirming pre-referendum economic expectations. While not a catastrophic rupture, it has produced “significant and material long-term damage” to the UK’s economic trajectory.
🌍 The interview also reveals deeper structural tensions: migration was not reduced but reconfigured, sovereignty did not translate into control, and populist promises collided with the realities of interdependence. Brexit, in this reading, is less a resolution than a prolonged and costly reconfiguration of Britain’s political economy.
📌 A compelling reflection on the limits of national autonomy, the durability of populist narratives, and the economic realities shaping democratic politics today.
📕 Read the interview: 🔗 populismstudies.org/ten-years-on-w…
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