A new article co-authored by Ben Clift and former PAIS Professor Ben Rosamond is just published in New Political Economy. Entitled Technocratic reason in hard times: the mobilisation of economic knowledge and the discursive politics of BrexitLink opens in a new window, it explores why credentialed economic expertise did not enjoy a privileged position within the Brexit debate. Using the contrasting cases of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) and Economists for Brexit/Free Trade (EfFT), it argues that the plebiscitary politicisation or Brexit downgraded the reasoned, evidence-based vernacular of the OBR. The basic unknowability of the post-Brexit economy further impaired expert input. The radical uncertainties of Brexit enabled the heterodox, tendentious assumptions of EfFT to proclaim greater authority than was merited.