The Brexit now agreed allows us to pursue free trade around the world, leaving EU protectionism behind us. This will bring down consumer prices dramatically as our people will at last be allowed to shop around in the world market. Our producers too will have to match this competition; and this will raise our productivity and growth.
Remainers argued that EU protectionism was good for us; they are as wrong about that as about the chances of an EU trade deal- and for the same reason; in their ‘world trade model’ markets do not work, nor does competition. Yet a model in which both are the powers behind economic success fits our own experience, as we know well from our history as a free market country.