If the UK plunges into a no-deal (hard) Brexit, then it is very difficult to predict what will happen to the economy in the short-term. The reason is that there are virtually no precedents to a country leaving an economic bloc in which it has been thoroughly integrated for many years. Professor Peter Murrell discusses how the transition from socialism in Eastern Europe does provide parallels. The portents are bad indeed. 
 

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