In the run-up to last week’s 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote, a brief but telling news story appeared in the Daily Star newspaper.
“Britain is back in love with boffins,” said the report on a YouGov poll showing trust in an array of experts had risen since Michael Gove said we had all “had enough of experts”.
Scientists, nutritionists and weather forecasters are all in better odour, and one group did even better: economists. That’s right. Trust in the experts who consistently, and correctly, said Brexit would damage the British economy has soared by 12 percentage points since 2017, when YouGov last studied the issue.
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