Where’s the plan for post-Brexit Britain?

Nobody is talking about making Britain attractive to business in this election campaign, says Matthew Lynn. That is sure to be a costly mistake.

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In the history books, 2017 will go down as the Brexit election, with the campaign, and certainly the voting, largely dominated by the issue of leaving the EU. Yet while there is plenty of discussion about soft and hard Brexits, and some about what kind of negotiating stance we should take, almost nobody is asking the most obvious question. Given that we are leaving, how should we adjust our economy to cope with that? After all, for 40 years a completely open market with Europe has been a key attraction for investors in Britain.

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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.