![]() ![]() ![]() Seemingly demonstrating a relative weakness since the end of the Brexit transition period in January 2021.īoth articles stand out like sore thumbs - not least because last week the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published the latest UK trade figures which showed UK exports reaching £815.2b in 2022 - up 25%. The chart below is taken from the latter article and again purports to look at the volume of UK goods exports this time in comparison to the rest of the G7. ![]() The chart below is taken from the former article and purports to demonstrate a fall in the volume (not value) of UK goods exports in the three months to January 2023 versus the same (unusual) three month period in 2020 (and then on a rolling average basis since 2017). The first entitled “ Brexit blamed as UK misses out on global trade rebound ” and the second entitled “ UK’s goods exports lowest in G7 following Brexit, study finds ”. Well they have been at it again in two recent articles. The FT (and others) have been at it again. I have written before about the Financial Times’ anti-Brexit bias and how its journalists misuse data in presenting Brexit as an “entirely negative and irredeemable event” which must be reversed. ![]()
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