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George Magnus

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The Brexit ghost is haunting party conferences

By George Magnus Posted on October 1, 2017December 22, 2017 In Europe + UK Brexit, Party conferences 0

First published: Prospectmagazine.co.uk, 26/09/2017

When the global economy turns, Britain will pay the price for the dire state of its Brexit debate

This week at conference, the Labour Party is fudging decisions on Brexit—refusing a full debate on the subject, while the leadership pretends that we can both leave the European Union and abandon austerity. Next week at its own conference, the Conservative Party will lay bare the sham of the Florence Brexit “truce,” revealing a government strategy that amounts simply to “kicking the can.” It is embarrassing, to say the least, that the main Brexit debate is the one we are having with ourselves, much to the chagrin—if not bemusement—of our EU27 counterparts. Fortunately, the global economy is at least providing a relatively stable backdrop for the UK. But things are changing, and we should not be complacent that this benign state of affairs will continue. As things start to get trickier externally, things will also get feistier at home.

There is some good news. At home, the latest government borrowing figures through August suggest that the Chancellor may have some leeway to ease budgetary policy in his Budget statement on 22nd November. In the world at large, global institutions such as the IMF and OECD think that synchronised global economic growth will hold steady going into 2018, and that the biggest positive surprise remains the EU. The rise of populism—the latest example being Germany’s AfD party taking a 13 per cent share of the vote in Sunday’s German elections—has not interfered with the global expansion. Yet….. Read more:

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George Magnus is an independent economist and commentator, an Associate at the China Centre, Oxford University, and an adviser to some asset management companies.

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