The customs union fight

The fury of Rees-Mogg et al should prove irrelevant. Matthew Partridge reports.

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Jacob Rees-Mogg: not enough support for a hard Brexit
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"The fight over Britain's future customs relationship with the EU has split the Conservative party," says George Parker in the Financial Times and it was expected to split Prime Minster Theresa May's inner Brexit cabinet when it met to discuss customs policy earlier this week. May is proposing a "hybrid" customs partnership, under which Britain will "mirror the EU's customs regime at its borders and collect tariffs on behalf of Brussels".

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Dr Matthew Partridge
Shares editor, MoneyWeek

Matthew graduated from the University of Durham in 2004; he then gained an MSc, followed by a PhD at the London School of Economics.

He has previously written for a wide range of publications, including the Guardian and the Economist, and also helped to run a newsletter on terrorism. He has spent time at Lehman Brothers, Citigroup and the consultancy Lombard Street Research.

Matthew is the author of Superinvestors: Lessons from the greatest investors in history, published by Harriman House, which has been translated into several languages. His second book, Investing Explained: The Accessible Guide to Building an Investment Portfolio, is published by Kogan Page.

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