What Went Wrong With Brexit: And What We Can Do About It (Hardback)

Peter Foster (author)

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Hardback 192 Pages
Published: 07/09/2023

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Synopsis

A brilliantly concise and clear-headed primer on the legacy of Brexit and how the circumstances of the British nation have changed since 2016, Foster's volume proposes ways to ameliorate the economic and reputational damage done thus far.

Six years after Brexit, it can feel like we're still having the same conversations. This is the explainer we need to move on.

And we do need to move on, because in the meantime so much has changed. The economic realities that are making the UK less competitive, less productive and less well-off are ever more obvious - and more and more people are finding out the Brexit they were sold was based on falsehoods and fantasy. So what exactly went wrong with Brexit?

In this book, Peter Foster dispels the myths and, most importantly, shows what a better future for Britain after Brexit might look like. With clear-headed practicality, he considers the real costs of leaving the EU, how we can recover international trust in the UK, how to improve cooperation and trade with our neighbours, and how to begin to build the Global Britain that Brexit promised but failed to deliver. The politicians won't talk about it, so we need to.

Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 9781805301257
Number of pages: 192
Weight: 313 g
Dimensions: 220 x 144 x 22 mm
Edition: Main

MEDIA REVIEWS

A brilliant guide through Brexit's complexities - The Times

Coolly, meticulously, Foster builds his case. [ . . . ] It is journalism at its best, wedding a determination to explain complex issues to a wider audience clearly with well-founded anger - Guardian

A fresh view on botched Brexit . . . I agree with almost every word of Foster's book - Sunday Times

Peter Foster's sober assessment, based on the forensic and methodical reporting for which he has become renowned [. . .], is delivered with convincing and riveting detail in this tightly-argued book - Irish Times

Everyone should read this book. And then read it again and memorise it. Clear headed, unemotional, fact-rich - a definitive account of the economic damage we have self-inflicted and, crucially, the recipe for how we can start to mitigate it to get the country working again - EMILY MAITLIS

Foster has been a tireless and expert chronicler of Brexit reality even as many of his fellow journalists failed or refused to understand both simple and complex facts. This book shows why he is among the best qualified commentators in the country to explain how we got into this mess and, more importantly, how we might begin to get out of it - JAMES O'BRIEN

Precise, concise, considered and wise - DAVID AARONOVICH

The Brexit debate was conducted in furnace-like temperatures and at a million decibels. In this excellent analysis, Foster relies on the quiet persuasiveness of facts and figures to explain how Britain's economy has been so seriously damaged by leaving the EU. And what needs to change in the future - JON SOPEL

Gets to the issues underlying so much of the recent chaos. [Foster] was a balanced voice at the Telegraph where he covered Europe during the negotiations, and here presents prognosis and prescription for Britain's Brexit-related woes - Guardian

An unassailable, devastating account of "magical" Brexit thinking at the time and how it has now shrunk Britain. We are left trapped in a desperate corner, argues Foster, with limited options which too few recognise. It's time to get real, Brexiters above all - WILL HUTTON