Brexit has FAILED says Nigel Farage – do you agree? Take our poll
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage admits Brexit has failed – and has blasted the Tories’ handling of our withdrawal from the EU.
Farage told BBC2’s Newsnight: “What I do think is that we haven’t actually benefited from Brexit, economically, what we could have done.
“What Brexit has proved, I’m afraid, is that our politicians are about as useless as the commissioners in Brussels were.
“We have mismanaged this totally and if you look at simple things such as takeovers, such as corporation tax, we are driving business away from our country.
“Arguably, now we’re back in control we are regulating our own businesses even more than they were as EU members.
“Brexit has failed … the Tories have let us down very, very badly.”
But, challenged by TV host Victoria Derbyshire that “economically, the UK would have been better off staying in (the EU)”, the former MEP insisted: “I don’t think that for a moment.”
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With spiralling inflation, labour shortages, poor economic growth and a lack of trade deals, it’s perhaps hard for many to paint Brexit as anything other than a catastrophic failure.
Life outside the EU has been far from plain sailing since a majority of voters said the UK should leave in 2016.
Yet despite life being pretty dire for many of us, huge swathes staunchly believe that officially withdrawing in 2020 was the right decision – and blame issues the country has faced since then on coronavirus, the war in Ukraine and a failure to properly implement Brexit and take advantage of potential openings.
