Investment

PM clings to fiction that we can cut an FTA by March 2019. By pretending impossible can happen, she’s messing up Brexit and damaging us all.

Economy is barely growing. Toyota is worried about its UK factory. Bloomberg has called Brexit the “stupidest” thing a country has done.

EIB funded channel tunnel. EIF, its sister organisation, provides a third of our venture capital. There’s so far no plan to fill the gap.

Lower growth means it’ll be harder to get money Tories are promising for NHS and schools - and that’s before Brexit has even happened.

As cabinet quarrels persist over the economy and immigration, public opinion swerved away from a hard Brexit in a mixed week for the economy.

Repeated online claims about business getting EU money to quit the country are tendentious. Brexit would wreck UK investment.

Mark Carney warns Brexit could cause recession, higher inflation and lower growth.

UK is wooing China to be its first port of call in Europe. Quitting the EU would dim its attractions.