CIBUK in association with Brexit Facts4EU celebrates
Five Fabulous Freedoms since leaving the EU
INTRODUCTION
Is it really five years since we finally left the European Union? Given the daily attempts by its opponents to besmirch the legacy of Brexit, it feels like only yesterday.
However, as we point out in this fifth anniversary celebration, opinions are not facts and if the Remainer-Rejoiners had spent just a little more time analysing the reality of life outside the EU over the past five years, they too would have a great deal more to celebrate.
What follows are five freedoms based on reports from our principal research affiliate over the past year outlining the concrete benefits to Britain from having left the European Union.
Whether the incumbent government will consolidate the gains we have secured or risk losing them in a misguided attempt to ingratiate itself with the EU remains an open question. Let us hope they see sense and are persuaded by the evidence before them.
1(a) Freedom to make trade deals – outside the EU
2025 news: Brexit Britain has trade agreements with 36% more countries than the EU
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On Thursday 02 Jan 2025, the Office for National Statistics released its latest update on trade deals achieved by Brexit Britain since it left the EU and the country was finally able to do these deals on its own.
Our summary update shows categorically that the UK is now in an excellent international trading position, only four years after finally leaving the EU. Brexit Britain’s results are now eclipsing those of the entire EU apparatus.
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1(b) Biggest-ever free trade deal for Brexit Britain is now in force – in record time
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On Sunday (15 Dec 2024) the UK formally accessed to membership of the enormous Trans-Pacific trading bloc known under its acronym ‘CPTPP’. This represents another huge ‘Brexit benefit’ and Rejoiners have been keen to try to minimise it. What follows makes it impossible for them to do this and retain any credibility.
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2(a) Freedom to grow exports – outside the EU
Since 2016, the UK exports to Trump’s USA grew 1.5 TIMES FASTER than exports to the EU
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On Mon 11 Nov 2024, we showed that President-Elect Donald Trump’s USA bought £187 BN in goods and services from the UK last year. This next part in the Facts4EU.Org exports series is even more revealing.
Since the EU Referendum, Brexit Britain’s exports to the US have grown over one-and-a-half times faster than its exports to the EU.
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2(b)“God bless America” – UK’s largest export market bought £187 BN from us last year
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In this next part in our UK exports series using the latest trade data, we reveal where Brexit Britain is now selling the most. And in the Top 30 markets, less than one-third of UK overseas sales were to EU countries, according to latest official figures.
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3. Freedom to create jobs & prosperity – outside the EU
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LATEST : More than 2.1 million additional people employed since the EU Referendum
On Mon 04 Nov 2024, the Office for National Statistics released its latest data on the number of employees in Great Britain. (Northern Ireland’s data is delayed.) Facts4EU.Org’s analysis of the official figures shows an astonishing rise of more than 2.1 million in the number of employees in GB, since the British people voted to leave the European Union.
The full report can be read here.
4. Freedom from the massive costs of membership – outside the EU
REVEALED : Brexit Britain dodged a speeding, 3-year, €600bn EU budget bullet-train
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If the UK were still a member of the EU, (which Ms Reeves and the entire cabinet all campaigned vigorously for), it would have been the second-largest funder of the €569 billion budget for 2021-2023. The UK would have had to pay around £66bn (GBP), plus additional monies for ‘off-budget’ EU funds.
This dwarves Rachel Reeves’ “£22bn black hole” by a factor of three and would have meant she was having to face four times the funding gap.
A link to the full article can be found here.
5. Freedom under the law – outside the EU
Why the World chose English law over EU law
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The law matters and has always been appreciated by the British people. For centuries it has been developed and nurtured and the British legal system has been adopted by countless countries around the world. It enables rather than restricts and people know where they stand.
In contrast, the continent operates on the code-based method, either the Napoleonic version of 1804 or the German version of 1900. The principle in the EU is that you can only do something safely if the law says you can. If there’s no law then you have no legal cover. In effect the EU legal system means you could be committing an offence even if there is no clear law prohibiting it.
This was a hugely popular report.
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