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If that was the reason, it wasn't the smartest move given the devaluation of the currency.

I was of the opinion it had more to do with his company's fairly lacklustre vacuum cleaners being exposed when they were compared under the ERP directive in a way in which they didn't come out favourably compared with their German competition. [0]

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11075490/James-D...




Given that the UK government has not yet settled on exactly one specific post-Brexit economic policy in order to guide what they ask for in the negotiations, I’m fairly sure that between half and 2/3 of Brexit campaigners will be very upset regardless of what happens. It’s possible that number will be higher, but it won’t be lower.


I'm pretty sure everybody is going to come out of this exercise disappointed.


Except, perhaps in the long term, those that want the UK to adopt the common currency.




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