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The cost of feeding a British household has risen sharply since 2020, and while global inflation bears much of the blame, post-Brexit trade arrangements have introduced structural pressures on food prices and supply chains that long predate the energy crisis. A closer examination of the data reveals that the impact has been neither uniform nor temporary.
Brexit was sold as an act of national unity — taking back control on behalf of a sovereign United Kingdom. Yet nearly a decade on, it has done as much to strain the bonds between Britain's constituent nations as any policy in living memory. From Holyrood to Stormont, the post-Brexit settlement has exposed deep fault lines in how the UK governs itself.
Eight years after the referendum that reshaped Britain's economic trajectory, we examine the data on household finances, grocery bills, wages, and regional wellbeing to ask a straightforward question: are ordinary Britons materially better or worse off? The picture is considerably more complicated — and in places more troubling — than either side of the Brexit debate predicted.