We might never get evidence to show “one way or the other” if Brexit has been bad for the economy, Lord David Forst has claimed.
The former Brexit minister said it would probably never be clear whether leaving the EU had succeeded or failed on economic grounds because there was too much else going on.
Speaking at an event hosted by a Changing Europe, he said: “One piece of evidence of failure would be if we are still debating this in five or six years’ time in the same way.”
“If it’s to succeed it needs to settle in the British polity and there needs to be broad consensus that this is how we are going forward. I don’t think we’re quite there at the moment.”
He added: “I am not sure we will ever get economic evidence one way or the other that is going to prove this. The tests are broader, the tests are about democracy as well as economics.”
Elsewhere, voters are heading to the polls today in two crucial by-elections where defeat for the Tories could spell fresh trouble for the premiership of Boris Johnson.
