“Name a single Brexit benefit!” People have been making the demand for ten years now, rarely in good faith. I quickly learned that the only useful response is, “Do you actually want me to list some Brexit benefits, or are you waiting for me to get three words into my answer before jumping in to tell me what an idiot I was to have voted Leave?”

In fact, the biggest Brexit benefits are often negative. The United Kingdom has been free to stand aside from some of the crazier and more expensive regulations adopted by the European Union since January 2021. For example, it has not had to pay into the post-COVID-19 recovery fund, a racket for politically-connected rent-seekers. It has not had to adopt the 9,000 regulations decreed by Brussels since Brexit.