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Grant us access now to the Whitehall resultsMichael EllingtonFebruary 26, 2018Sir,Chris Giles (FT, The latest pro-Brexit analysis has got its sums badly wrong) is absolutely spot on in crit-icising the modelling assumptions, and results, of “Economists for Trade” who came to the conclusion thatBrexit “would provide a 2 to 4 per cent boost to national income in the long term”. Chris is able to offerconstructive criticism because he, and the rest of us, have full access to the working paper of the “Economistsfor Trade”. Contrast this with the “Whitehall results”, claiming that any plausible Brexit policy would triggera loss between 2 and 8 per cent of national income in the long term. Given that the “Whitehall results” remainwell-hidden from the public domain, how can we know whether these are more accurate than those producedby the quantitative model of the “Economists for Trade”? Is it not about time the Government granted fullaccess to the “Whitehall results” so that all of us can judge their validity and consequently reach an informedopinion about our country’s long-term income prospects?Dr Mike EllingtonLecturer in FinanceUniversity of Liverpool Management School, UK1

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