What Went Wrong With Brexit
And What We Can Do About It
ONE OF 2023''S BIGGEST NEW BOOKS (GUARDIAN)
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2023
A GUARDIAN ''IF YOU READ ONE BOOK ABOUT . . .'' POLITICS PICK
A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: POLITICS
A THE WEEK CHRISTMAS BOOK CHOICE
Six years after Brexit, it can feel like we''re still having the same conversations. This is the explainer we need to move on.
And we do need to move on, because in the meantime so much has changed. The economic realities that are making the UK less competitive, less productive and less well-off are ever more obvious - and more and more people are finding out the Brexit they were sold was based on falsehoods and fantasy.
So what exactly went wrong with Brexit?
In this book, Peter Foster dispels the myths and, most importantly, shows what a better future for Britain after Brexit might look like. With clear-headed practicality, he considers the real costs of leaving the EU, how we can recover international trust in the UK, how to improve cooperation and trade with our neighbours, and how to begin to build the Global Britain that Brexit promised but failed to deliver.
The politicians won''t talk about it, so we need to.
Canongate Books/Atlantic Books ltd (4 April 2024)
REVIEWS OF ‘What Went Wrong with Brexit’
"A brilliant guide through Brexit's complexities" ― TheTimes
"Coolly, meticulously, Foster builds his case. [ . . . ] It isjournalism at its best, wedding a determination to explain complexissues to a wider audience clearly with well-founded anger" ―Guardian
"A fresh view on botched Brexit . . . I agree with almost everyword of Foster's book" ― Sunday Times
"Peter Foster's sober assessment, based on the forensic andmethodical reporting for which he has become renowned [. . .], isdelivered with convincing and riveting detail in this tightly-arguedbook" ― Irish Times
"Shows how a classic populist alliance of fanatics andopportunists mixed simplistic analysis with heated rhetoric andoutright lies to weaken the UK's most important economic relationshipand threaten its domestic stability" -- MARTIN WOLF ―Financial Times
"Everyone should read this book. And then read it again andmemorise it. Clear headed, unemotional, fact-rich - a definitiveaccount of the economic damage we have self-inflicted and, crucially,the recipe for how we can start to mitigate it to get the countryworking again" -- EMILY MAITLIS, The News Agents podcast.
"Foster has been a tireless and expert chronicler of Brexitreality even as many of his fellow journalists failed or refused tounderstand both simple and complex facts. This book shows why he isamong the best qualified commentators in the country to explain howwe got into this mess and, more importantly, how we might begin toget out of it" -- JAMES O'BRIEN
"Precise, concise, considered and wise" -- DAVID AARONOVICH
"The Brexit debate was conducted in furnace-like temperaturesand at a million decibels. In this excellent analysis, Foster relieson the quiet persuasiveness of facts and figures to explain howBritain's economy has been so seriously damaged by leaving the EU.And what needs to change in the future" -- JON SOPEL
"Gets to the issues underlying so much of the recent chaos.[Foster] was a balanced voice at the Telegraph where he coveredEurope during the negotiations, and here presents prognosis andprescription for Britain's Brexit-related woes" ― Guardian
