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From the outside, I can’t see a single positive repercussion of Brexit.

There seemed to be a bit of a win in vaccine procurement relative to the EU early pandemic.

The timing's turned out pretty un/fortunate (depending on your point of view; regardless of political side of it) with the coronavirus - complicating what's due how much to which, whether either can be blamed, affected the ability to respond to each other, etc.

This was not a Brexit dividend, as participation in the procurement was optional, and it was undertaken while still a member of the single market. The same strategy could have been pursued while a member of the bloc.

the AUKUS submarine deal is pretty recent

there is absolutely no way that undermining France would have been on the table when the UK was part of the EU common defence

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