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TORIES want an exit from the EU in favour of City bankers that hardly anyone actually voted for, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said yesterday as he endorsed a “people’s Brexit.”
He insisted that the “utterly chaotic” government was only interested in reaching sweetheart deals for banks and big businesses that would turn Britain into the “Singapore of the north Atlantic,” while smaller manufacturers and companies are ignored.
To back up his point that ministers cannot be trusted with control of Brexit, Mr McDonnell pointed to speculation about what incentives the government was expected to offer Nissan to urge it to stay in Britain in the face of any EU trade tariffs.
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
It’s the dramatic rise of China with its burgeoning economy that has put the Trump administration into a frenzy – with major implications both at home and abroad, argues MICHAEL BURKE
