Forget the EU – let’s tilt towards Trump

A Donald Trump presidency alongside Brexit presents the City with a great opportunity, says Matthew Lynn. But it's got to show that it wants it.

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Britain would do well to lean towards Donald Trump
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On the campaign trail, Donald Trump argued for so many terrible ideas that it was easy to overlook the few good ones.But for the UK, the president-elect's promise to repeal much of the financial regulation of the last eight years may well have the greatest impact of any of his policies and may well prove the greatest opportunity for the City as well.

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Matthew Lynn

Matthew Lynn is a columnist for Bloomberg, and writes weekly commentary syndicated in papers such as the Daily Telegraph, Die Welt, the Sydney Morning Herald, the South China Morning Post and the Miami Herald. He is also an associate editor of Spectator Business, and a regular contributor to The Spectator. Before that, he worked for the business section of the Sunday Times for ten years. 

He has written books on finance and financial topics, including Bust: Greece, The Euro and The Sovereign Debt Crisis and The Long Depression: The Slump of 2008 to 2031. Matthew is also the author of the Death Force series of military thrillers and the founder of Lume Books, an independent publisher.