by Christopher Nye | Dec 6, 2018
After MPs passed a historic motion to hold the government in contempt, the Commons leader, Andrea Leadsom, confirmed that the Brexit legal advice would be released by the government at 11:30am on Wednesday. Reaction to the advice was swift, with many MPs expressing...
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by Christopher Nye | Dec 5, 2018
What was a rollercoaster day for the pound was a rollercoaster day for the dollar too, as the greenback started the day by losing quite a bit of ground against sterling, before retracing those losses. By the end of the day it had climbed to its highest mark against...
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by Christopher Nye | Dec 5, 2018
Yesterday, the European Court of Justice’s Advocate General, Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona, said that the UK could revoke Article 50 and, in effect, cancel Brexit. Importantly, he said that this could be done without the EU’s approval – which lit up the eyes of those...
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by Christopher Nye | Dec 5, 2018
Towards the end of yesterday afternoon, we learned that opposition parties had won a vote on the government being in contempt of Parliament by four votes. Soon after, MPs backed a motion that declared ministers were in contempt of Parliament over Brexit legal advice....
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by Christopher Nye | Dec 5, 2018
Yesterday, Mark Carney defended the Brexit analysis released by the Bank of England last week. The Governor of the BoE was testifying to Parliament’s Treasury Committee and said that some of the criticism the analysis attracted was entirely unfair. He pointed out that...
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