Economics The Great British Reboot review – could Brexit really give Britain a boost? Alex Brummer’s timely book about our future correctly argues the UK -- Nicholls/Reuters The paradox of Brexit is that, if this ultra-free market project incubated by the hard right is to have any chance of success, it must trigger an unprecedented wave of economic and social activism, -- vote Leave for an intensification of free-market globalisation and more libertarian carelessness about the condition of the country beyond London. To make a success of Brexit, Britain has to become more European. This book, arguing that Brexit requires and will cause a great, state-directed, British reboot, exemplifies the paradox. For large parts I was cheering the author along with his searing account of how -- remaining and undersung strengths in high technology, financial services, universities, pharmaceuticals and the creative industries. What we have to do, declares this convert to Brexit, is to abandon free-market decadence and instead demand the public and private sectors seriously get behind our economic strengths as they never have before. -- much liked and respected City editor of the Daily Mail, I too opposed the sale of Britain’s hi-tech jewel Arm to Japan’s Softbank in the months after Brexit and, like him, thought the claim by the May government and Nigel Farage that it proved that Britain was “open for business” was mindless babble. Great countries don’t pawn their -- what is wrong and what needs to be done – a reset-cum-reboot of British capitalism and a remade social contract accompanied by the political federalisation of the country. It may take Brexit to jolt Britain into developing fit-for-purpose, lookalike European institutions, but I have the severest doubts that Johnson’s cabinet of placemen and women have -- * Book of the day * Brexit * European Union * reviews -- [p?c1=2&c2=6035250&cv=2.0&cj=1&cs_ucfr=0&gdpr=0&comscorekw=Economics%2C Brexit%2CBooks%2CCulture%2CBusiness%2CEuropean+Union]