The unfulfilled promises of Brexit: why the UK is worse off than before leaving the EU
The table‑thumping — both literal and figurative — by former British prime minister David Cameron in rainy Brussels in the autumn of 2014 now feels like a faraway memory. But that was where it all began. “We are not going suddenly to get out our checkbook and write a check for €2 billion. It is not going to happen,” the irate Conservative politician said after a European summit where his counterparts demanded his country increase its contribution. The promise of a referendum was already on the table at that point, but it still seemed distant and vague.
