Withdrawal from EU will make matters worse for Britain

London

AN OBSERVER of Britain's European Union referendum campaign would be forgiven for thinking that the country's economy had been one of the EU's best performers over the last 15 years.

Much of the debate focused on how EU membership was holding back the British economy. Boris Johnson (a leading Brexit campaigner, now foreign secretary) rarely passed up an opportunity to claim that the EU economy was the world's weak link. The message was that the UK's dynamic and flexible economy had little to risk from withdrawal.