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What Went Wrong With Brexit

And What We Can Do About It

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What Went Wrong With Brexit

By: Peter Foster
Narrated by: Peter Foster
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ONE OF 2023'S BIGGEST NEW BOOKS (GUARDIAN)
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2023
A GUARDIAN 'IF YOU READ ONE BOOK ABOUT . . .' POLITICS PICK
A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: POLITICS

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.

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Critic reviews

"A brilliant guide through Brexit’s complexities"
"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"
"A fresh view on botched Brexit . . . I agree with almost every word of Foster’s book"
"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"
"Shows how a classic populist alliance of fanatics and opportunists mixed simplistic analysis with heated rhetoric and outright lies to weaken the UK’s most important economic relationship and threaten its domestic stability" (MARTIN WOLF)
"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"
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A concise perspective of the damage Brexit has done to the UK. A common sense look at how to move forward by using strong governance, getting rid of political dogma, utilising cooperation.

No Nonsense Appraisal of Brexit

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I couldn't finish this book, it was too painful.
Being told everything that we knew would go wrong did, in fact, go wrong didn't give me any comfort, it just reinforced what we'd lost by separating ourselves from our biggest market and the group of countries which we have most in common politically and culturally.
I guess the book has to be written, but it just filled me with despair.

Just too painful ...

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The Remainer Bias of the author. Totally one sided leaver view of Brexit. Don’t bother listening!

Biased Remainer book

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