Stop performative Brexit and do what works for the British economy

Brexit has left its mark on UK international trade, although, so far, the effect has been smaller than economists expected. Dennis Novy, Thomas Sampson and Catherine Thomas review recent UK trade performance and argue that the next UK government should acknowledge the costs of diverging from EU trading rules and recognise that the importance of the EU market for the British economy cannot be fully compensated by trade with non-EU countries.