Keir Starmer, Brexit
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Experts say Labour’s ‘halfway house’ approach risks losing support from progressives and ‘red wall’ voters
June will mark the 10th anniversary of the UK’s Brexit vote. The intervening period has seen five prime ministers come and go and the sixth (Starmer) now appears to be on the ropes. That level of prime-ministerial churn is unprecedented in British history and points to a polity in turmoil.
Political and economic upheaval transmitted shocks from large markets of Paris and London to smaller markets where impacts were felt most intensely
The prime minister has been pursuing alignment with EU rules in these areas since well before his break with President Trump on Iran, but it is striking how global instability (in part a code for this unique and capricious president) now forms a plank of his argument for the policy.
Here’s the problem: there isn’t a deal in place to manage the U.K.’s relationship with the twenty-seven countries in the European Union after Brexit, which is set to happen on March 29th. The U.K. has been part of the E.U. for so long that the normal ...
Prime minister has said closer alignment to the EU’s single market would be in the national interest, a decade on from the Brexit vote
A decade after the 2016 referendum, the FTSE 100 has trailed Wall Street and continental Europe, the pound is weaker against the dollar and the euro, and roughly $160 billion has been pulled from UK equity funds.
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