Michael Owen painted a very dismal picture of life in the UK (April 21).

Owen is in exalted company: Barack Obama warned of dire consequences should we have the temerity to vote leave, Jamie Dymon of JP Morgan tried the same tactic, and our own erstwhile Chancellor George Osborne warned of an emergency budget if we had the audacity to vote leave.

There is a common theme: all these so-called experts have been proven wrong.

Our manufacturing order book is at a 30-year high; foreign direct investment in the UK is up £25 billion year on year; pay rose 2.8 per cent in the three months to January 2018; unemployment stands at 3.4 per cent which represents a 40-year low; the pound is up six per cent against the dollar and our currency is the strongest performer among G10 nations.

Brexit is approximately 300 days away from becoming a reality and for many of us it simply cannot come fast enough.

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