The Guardian...again. So blatant with the bias journalism, Jacob.
Brexit, prior to the pandemic, was unfortunate in that it diverted the governments away from the issues, the markets closed down, travel was stopped. Not a good moment for sorting out the Brexit deals etc., andit was always public knowledge that Brexit would take several years to sort out; the UK having financial commitments to the EU to settle and allowing the EU to get over its strop that anyone would want to leave the EU which put us at the start of the pandemic.
The new Covid variants appear to be weaker than those in 2019/20 and we are seeing the light of recovery as far as the recession is concerned, so we may get some stabilty in the next 10 years and we will be able to see the gains from the end of our financial obligations and the growth of trade, both with the EU and the rest of the world. The future, to me, looks better than it would have done if we'd have stayed in the floundering EU.