UK's pre-referendum Brexit forecasts no longer valid - finance ministry

The top official at Britain's finance ministry said his department's forecasts of a big hit to the economy from Brexit, made shortly before the June 2016 EU membership referendum, were no longer applicable.Brexit supporters have long criticised the projections as part of a "Project Fear" they say was led by former prime minister David Cameron and his then-Chancellor George Osborne.The forecasts said that within 15 years Britain's economy could be between 3.4 and 9.5 percent smaller if it left th