“Pound slides as Juncker warns risk of no-deal Brexit is now ‘palpable'”

Sep 19, 2019 | Brexit

I thought Boris’s Do or Dying was supposed to be piling the pressure on the EU. It looks, however, as if that table has been turned, which is not good unless you’re a die-hard, kamikaze No Dealer. As a result, it’s not just our allies the Saudis who are hiking the cost of my central heating and dirty diesel, but the pound, which is now not just weak, but like Molesworth’s little brother (kids etc), utterly-wet-and-a-weed.

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