Robert Paston
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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a lot more money for the NHS through the taxation system for schools.
I mean, my rough and ready calculation is on a £3 trillion economy, we're looking at £240 billion of income.
that has disappeared.
I think we're now going to go to a quick break.
And after the break, I want to ask you, if we had had a more orderly Brexit, would it have been less damaging?
And then secondly, the other question I'm going to ask you is, basically, having lost this 8%, how much of it could we get back?
if we rejoined, would there be a catch up if we rejoined the EU?
So let's come to those in just a couple of minutes after a quick break.
There are actually some pretty common sense explanations for why there would have been this effect.
And I want to talk to you about those in a minute.
But I think it is important to acknowledge that economists, particularly those economists who supported Brexit, some of them have said some quite unkind things about you, but there has been some criticism.
And I suppose there's one bit of criticism that seems to me to...
From the point of view of, how can I put it, sort of common sense, to use that phrase again, I think it's important to examine, which is, there was a bloke called Julian Jessop who said this.
He said, basically, if we had grown 8% faster than we actually did,
That would have meant that we would have been, along with the US, the top performing rich economy in the entire world.
And he takes the view that, although I'm sure he's a great patriot, that it is completely inconceivable that Britain could have been an economy performing as well as, let's say, the US over that period.
What do you say to those who, in a sense, say, you know, whether we'd stayed in the EU or left, this idea that staying in could have turned us into this sort of unbelievably dynamic place.
What's your response?
But then let's look at the other thing that he says.
And I think you have acknowledged because you looked actually, you did all sorts of different methodologies top down.
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