From a trade deal perspective, the UK previously had access to around 43 active trade deals as part of EU membership - a membership that it paid billions a year for, on the basis of the benefits that it provided, including the trade deals.

The UK replicated all but two of these active trade deals (Montenegro, Algeria) and no longer has to pay the EU to access them - so it can be said that a perk that was previously paid for, is now available without said payment.

Since leaving the EU in 2020, the UK has been able to improve on the rolled over deals with Japan, Singapore and Ukraine - and is in the process of improvement with Canada, Mexico, Switzerland and Israel.

Other deals lined up for improvement in the coming years include Vietnam, South Korea and Chile. These improvements would not be possible without having left the EU, as the negotiation of trade deals is a reserved competency of the EU.

When the UK left the EU in 2020, it quickly commenced negotiations with The USA, Australia and New Zealand on new comprehensive FTAs. Those with Australia and New Zealand have since been concluded, signed, ratified and brought into place.

The EU commenced FTA negotiations with both Australia and New Zealand in Summer 2018. In those five years, the negotiations with New Zealand have concluded and the deal is about to be signed - with the potential of years of further deliberation prior to ratification and bringing into effect. The negotiations with Australia are yet to even conclude.

The fact that the UK has access to these trade deals, is a direct consequence of leaving the EU - giving UK consumers and business alike benefits of a deal many years away from being in place for EU consumers and businesses.

The UK has also secured accession to CPTPP, as well as being in negotiation for new deals with both the six-nation GCC and with India.

As the NFFO confirmed within their September 2021 report "Brexit Balance Sheet", the UK fishing sector as a whole is better off now outside the EU than it was from inside, even when applying a figure for the additional costs caused by paperwork.

From the NFFO calculations within the report, the UK fishing sector was around £50 Million a year better off, with this set to increase further with every year as quotas are returned to the UK (as per the tapered 6-year returning of quotas as agreed in the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement).

Estimates for 2023 forecast an increase of more than £100 Million.

With the return of sovereignty to the UK parliament, for multiple areas of government policy and UK law, the ability to petition your representatives - and for them to be removed by those who elected them when they are ineffective in the areas they care about - has not been as possible as it is now since the 1970s.

A good example of this is the many petitions regarding the treatment of animals within trade partner countries such as the Faroe Islands, requesting the UK suspend trade preferences with them until their animal rights records are improved upon. Whilst inside the EU, petitions of this nature to the UK were utterly pointless, as the UK government did not hold the power to be able to take such actions.

Contrary to popular opinion within the pro-EU community, the UKs Soft Power around the globe is grounded within its own abilities, and not a consequence of its place within the wider EU.

Since departing from the EU in 2020, the UK has retained its position within the global Soft Power rankings, being 2nd only to the USA. 

This ability for the UK to use its Soft Power around the globe as a force for good, is only possible due to the departure from the EU.

The treatment of different animal species across the EU is not consistent, and when it comes to the Single Market, some practices have to be tacitly condoned as their produce cannot be unfairly limited or banned from sale - as it would be against EU Single Market rules.

Which means that products such as traditional Foie Gras - produced using methods banned domestically in the UK - still had to be able to be sold on UK shelves, as they were produced legally within France.

By leaving the EU, the UK can choose to regulate against such products being able to be sold should it wish to do so - and has recently updated laws on for example the sale of shark fins.

The UK only has the ability to change these laws, because of leaving the EU.

By leaving the EU, the UK has been able to realign itself globally - the "Indo-Pacific Tilt" - in order to best take advantage of the wider global shift and projected growth in the coming decades.

The progression of trade deals with India, Australia and New Zealand - and the accession to the CPTPP agreement - are strong indicators of a shift that would simply not have been possible has the UK remained a member of the EU.