ColumnistThose of us who have always thought that Brexit, Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, was a bad idea should be feeling self-satisfied and vindicated now. Here’s a commentary by economist Desmond Lachman of the right-of-center American Enterprise Institute:“Since the Brexit referendum, the U.K.’s economic performance has deteriorated. It has done so as the U.K.’s future access to the European single market, which buys around 50 percent of the U.K.’s exports, has come into serious question. countries would also lose some exports to the U.K., these are much smaller than the U.K.’s export losses to the E.U. The U.K.’s losses are not just theoretical.

Source: Washington Post March 18, 2019 00:00 UTC