The IndependentMonday, 8 June 2026

Each year, Brexit costs us up to £30bn

David Miliband says the vote to leave the EU – 10 years ago this month – has cost Britain up to 1% of GDP annually, an act of ‘sabotage’ equivalent to ‘a punishing tax every day’. Writing in Anthony Seldon’s ‘The Brexit Effect’, serialised exclusively in The Independent, the former foreign secretary calls on Labour to give new momentum to rebuilding closer ties with Europe