TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019

Johnson’s no-deal bluster puts

livelihoods on the line

‘Culturally anxious Leavers’ are older, well-off and vote on immigration (AFP/Getty)

OLESYA DMITRACOVA

Jeremy Hunt (remember him?) infamously said he would go through with a no-deal

Brexit even if it meant telling business owners their companies would go bust.

Likewise and on a much bigger scale, our new leaders are clearly prepared to plunge

Britain into recession as a trade-off for delivering Brexit by 31 October. New

research suggests that, just like with Hunt, the sacrifice would not be theirs.

The last economic slump delivered the deepest cuts to the incomes of richer households. However, the next

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