Brexit was always about enabling a right wing neoliberal extremist programme and holding a bonfire on safety standards and regulations.
Quite.
It's made trade more difficult with the EU. Without compensatory opening up to the rest of the world - we don't seem to be able to get a deal with the US, for example. And, China is becoming a country non grata.
Mind you, with Germany committing economic suicide in its kow-towing to the Empire, one might ask whither the EU.