Autumn Budget 2017
Since the Spring Budget, the UK has held a General Election, the negotiations to leave the European Union have continued – not always at breakneck pace – and there has been the usual collection of mixed news for the UK economy.
The General Election started as an expected coronation for Theresa May and ended as an embarrassment, with the Conservative party now dependent on Northern Ireland’s DUP for a working majority in the Commons.
The Prime Minister remains committed to delivering Brexit on March 29th 2019 and currently appears ready to offer the EU more money in the ‘divorce settlement’ to kick-start the talks on trade.
But with negotiations on the coalition government in Germany having failed over the weekend, it is difficult to see how any talks can make much progress with the EU’s largest net contributor facing what the BBC’s Andrew Neil called the “biggest political crisis since the 1940s.”
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