Brexit

Winter 2019 looms, as does the threat of a global slowdown. On a local level, Brexit threatens to slow growth across the EU thanks to increased bureaucracy, trade friction, and declines both in FDI

I’m neither angry nor irritated by this. Merely confused. It is bizarre listening to, watching or reading the UK media with mere weeks to go before the expiry of the Article 50 process continue to

On June 23, 2016, about 52% of those UK citizens who voted in the referendum on membership of the EU decided to pull the UK out of it’s 43 year membership of the largest trading bloc in the world.

I was fascinated to read an op piece by one of the small band of Economists for Free Trade (previously “for Brexit”) that attempted to lay waste to the UK government’s views on the economic

Post-brexit, the UK is embarking on what most cogent economists describe as one of the most surprising acts of economic self harm by a sovereign people. One of the single largest reasons given for

What is most interesting about the press coverage of the apparent collapse of the Free Trade Agreement between the EU and Canada is the focus on the implications of the collapse, rather than the

I was in conversation yesterday with the CEO of a UK-based technology company who is currently using manufacturing plants in Shenzhen. Inevitably, I asked whether the devaluation of the Pound meant

The constant refrain during the EU referendum was to “take back control”. In explaining their position, the Brexiteers would extol the virtues of controlling the UK’s borders, the UK’s rules

It was a balmy July evening overlooking the gorgeous Montreux waterfront, with Lac Léman lapping coolly by the moorings of smart motor boats, and the French alps jutting up proud ahead of us. We had

I have been bemused and frustrated in equal measure watching the #brexit debate descend into farce and acrimony over the misuse of various options available to the UK in the event of a decision to