This election is all about Brexit – but then what?

All anyone will be voting on in the upcoming election will be Brexit. But what happens after that? What happens, for example, if Jeremy Corbyn wins?

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The next election is going to be all about Brexit. All the parties are going to pretend the vote is about all sorts of other things (austerity, the NHS, housing, education, a vague sense of what does or doesn't count as competence and so on). But it won't be true. Voters will be choosing between no Brexit with the Lib Dems; negotiated deal (or no deal) with the Tories; and something soft and confusing with Labour (a new softer deal, a referendum, or maybe remain). It's going to be all about Brexit. The problem is that after the vote it won't just be about Brexit any more.

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Merryn Somerset Webb

Merryn Somerset Webb started her career in Tokyo at public broadcaster NHK before becoming a Japanese equity broker at what was then Warburgs. She went on to work at SBC and UBS without moving from her desk in Kamiyacho (it was the age of mergers).

After five years in Japan she returned to work in the UK at Paribas. This soon became BNP Paribas. Again, no desk move was required. On leaving the City, Merryn helped The Week magazine with its City pages before becoming the launch editor of MoneyWeek in 2000 and taking on columns first in the Sunday Times and then in 2009 in the Financial Times

Twenty years on, MoneyWeek is the best-selling financial magazine in the UK. Merryn was its Editor in Chief until 2022. She is now a senior columnist at Bloomberg and host of the Merryn Talks Money podcast -  but still writes for Moneyweek monthly. 

Merryn is also is a non executive director of two investment trusts – BlackRock Throgmorton, and the Murray Income Investment Trust.