UK economy 'fell behind' after Brexit

The UK economy "fell behind" after Brexit, says Polly Toynbee, columnist at The Guardian newspaper and co-author of The Lost Decade: 2010–2020.

She says the referendum on membership of the European Union in 2016 "drew the fire from a whole lot of causes and wrapped them into one".

Immigration became a "scapegoat" but is no longer top of British voters' concerns, she adds.

Photo: A bus drives past a board indicating exchange currencies between sterling and the US dollar and Euros, in Central London in April 2022. Credit: Getty Images