What Rolling Back Brexit Would Mean for the UK Economy

June 9, 2026, 4:00 AM UTC

The politics of Brexit are changing. Ten years after the UK’s vote to leave the European Union, polls regularly show a majority in favor of rejoining the bloc. Politicians are increasingly open about their ideas for reestablishing bonds across the English Channel.

But undoing the damage won’t be easy. None of the options short of a complete reversal of Brexit would restore more than half of the output lost by Britain breaking away from its largest trading partner. That’s among the findings from a new Bloomberg Economics analysis of the impact of the 2016 referendum and three plausible scenarios for ...

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