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Labour suggests ministers failed to do analysis of Brexit deal

Emily Thornberry says lack of economic impact assessment ‘makes no sense whatsoever’

The shadow international trade secretary, Emily Thornberry, has accused the government of failing to carry out an economic impact assessment of Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal, after two key government departments told her they had no such document.

As official figures showed a 40.7% decline in exports to the EU in January, Thornberry wrote to the international trade secretary, Liz Truss, to ask why she had published assessments of many much less significant deals, but not the crucial Christmas Eve trade agreement with the EU.

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