British cheesemaker Simon Spurrell is one of them. / He is the managing director of the Macclesfield-based Cheshire Cheese Company, founded in 2010. / In 2021, the first year of Brexit-related business operations, Spurrell says the Cheshire Cheese Company lost £240,000 in wholesale and consumer business in Europe, and expects another £350,000 to be lost this year.

Britain’s economy is forecast to shrink by 0.4% in 2023, more than any other in the Group of Seven richest nations, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Britain is the only G-7 member whose economy has yet to return to pre-pandemic levels.

Simon Spurrell told Cheshire Live his business lost £250,000 as a direct result of Brexit.

Back in those pre-war, pre-Covid and pre-permacrisis halcyon days of early 2020, the world was the UK food sector’s oyster in terms of post-Brexit trading opportunities.

Simon Spurrell said the government is "so anti-Europe they won’t even discuss getting a better deal sorted out".