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Brexit: A costly pick-and-mix deal?
Brexit might be heading for a costly pick and mix deal, perhaps denuded of the power to influence either the EU or, perhaps even more critically, the WTO
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Well here in Scotland this is something of a seismic moment. The vote here won’t be so much about Brexit as independence and another chance to determine the future of the United Kingdom itself. Nicola Sturgeon called Mrs May’s announcement a “huge political miscalculation” and she will be banking on Scottish voters rejecting not just…
The treasury has announced a major new initiative for the ailing publicly-owned Royal Bank of Scotland. It has been struggling to sell off its branches south of the border – a key part of the conditions placed upon the rescue deal which stopped it going bust. The government’s now proposing a new £750m plan for RBS…
Brexit might be heading for a costly pick and mix deal, perhaps denuded of the power to influence either the EU or, perhaps even more critically, the WTO
We appear in short to be in uncharted waters in a contest that is pitching a rogue billionaire against a woman who is portrayed even by some Democrats as far too close to the bankers on Wall Street.
The message is that great change must come, dictated by the roar of the Brexit vote. She has determined what the roar meant.
Mr Cameron has talked to friends about the need to avoid the bad publicity Mr Blair has had from jetting around the world and picking up massive cheques from various individuals and regimes.
Until Theresa May mentioned, in her closing press conference, how her predecessor shared her opposition to a points based system, I hadn’t heard David Cameron’s name mentioned here once.
David Cameron will now have to assess whether the price of buying peace in his party was extortionately high.
Does Cyprus really sell EU passports? Yes – but only to the very rich. And so does Britain.
Are Nigeria and Afghanistan really “fantastically corrupt”? Are Britain’s hands clean when it comes to fighting corruption?
Last night Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, issued a stark warning about the future of capitalism.
If you have a pension, or a string of ISAs, then you are watching – for the second time in a decade – your wealth destroyed. European stock markets are now 20 per cent off their peak in the middle of last year.
Alexis Tsipras’ final election rally had the usual soundtrack and familiar props but a different cast. After more than a fifth of his MPs split to form a new left party, the inner core of party activists behind the stage were nervous. Would anybody more than the party faithful come?
Some 275,000 payments, including salaries, are delayed before the bank holiday weekend because of a glitch in HSBC’s IT systems.
There is a genuine sense that some of those supporting Jeremy Corbyn are invigorated by the sense of a genuine alternative to the broad consensus among the major parties.