Brexit forecasts are useless, long live Brexit forecasts

Steve Baker ‘beamed with pride as he dropped the the words ‘epistemology and econometrics into the same sentence’.Another day, another minister called to the Commons to answer an urgent question on the government’s repeated insistence on turning Brexit into a farce.With David Davis unavailable and Robin Walker still in rehab after his working over the day before, this time it was Steve Baker’s turn to be the fall guy.