This letter appeared in the Huddersfield Daily Examiner on 8 November 2025. Brexit advocates continue to downplay the economic impact of leaving the European Union, it says. The current Labour Government must tackle this - and not just use it as an excuse for tax rises and public services cuts in its Budget due to be announced on 26 November.

Huddersfield Daily Examiner letter: #Eurosceptics use dodgy numbers to downplay damage #Brexit did to the #UKEconomy. UK still underperforms vs. #EU & #Eurozone. #Labour & #Reeves must tackle the #Brexit legacy — not just use it as an excuse for tax rises and service cuts in the #UKBudget. #RejoinEU

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Rewind to 2013.
David Cameron, to silence #Tory #Eurosceptics, promised an #EUreferendum he thought he couldn’t lose despite decades of anti-EU bile from a largely foreign owned English press. In 2016, when he lost, he scarpered.

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'Having seen the damage #Brexit has done here, in #France even Marine Le Pen’s far-right Rassemblement Nationale has quietly dropped the idea of actually leaving the hated #EU. Maybe #Farage’s legacy will have been to have inoculated #Eurosceptics'

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#Brexit's about African corn & #climatechange: James O'Brien v three #Eurosceptics
@LBC @SLATUKIP

James O'Brien v #Eurosceptics
@LBC #newsnight @Skynews #bbcpapers #skypapers #EU #Brexit

So Tory #eurosceptics & #UKIP want to fix the #EUreferendum timing, question and eligible electorate.

That's #UKIP 'democracy'

#newsnight