British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has publicly acknowledged that Brexit has "significantly hurt" the country's economy, and called for an immediate move towards closer relations with the European Union. He said this during a speech, The Guardian reports.
Starmer stressed that there is "no credible economic vision" for the UK that does not involve positioning the country as an open trading economy.
"So we must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal we have significantly hurt our economy and so for economic renewal, we have to keep reducing frictions," the head of government said.
According to Starmer, the country needs to continue to move towards closer relations with the European Union. He called on fellow citizens to "be grown up about that" and accept the fact that such rapprochement "will require trade-offs" on the British side.
The decision to leave the United Kingdom from the European Union (Brexit) was made following the results of a consultative referendum on June 23, 2016, in which 51.9% of citizens voted "yes". The country officially left the EU on January 1, 2021.
We also recall that the British delegation left the European Parliament under the bagpipes.
London abandoned EU standards on environmental issues, workers' rights and subsidies.
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