Britain's busiest port at Felixstowe in Suffolk. John Fielding/Flickr. (CC 2.0 by-nc)
That the British decision to leave the European Union in the 23 June referendum will have profound consequences for the country’s economic policy and the future of its trade relations is no news. The economy not only loomed large in voters’ priorities pre-referendum; it still vies with immigration for the top spot in people’s expectations of Brexit. It remains an issue, which, depending on your interlocutor’s political beliefs, acts as a proxy for all that Brexit stands for: it is either opportunity or disaster, liberation or curse, the dawn of a new age or the self-exile of a country to the global backwaters.
