No-deal Brexit: Short Positions against the Pound Debate

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No-deal Brexit: Short Positions against the Pound

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Wrightbus (Ballymena)
Monday 30th September 2019

(5 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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That is such an unworthy question that I do not intend to dignify it with an answer.

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The Minister quotes Frances Coppola, but she also said:

“Many hedge-fund managers see Brexit…as an opportunity from which they obviously hope to profit, and they are positioning their portfolios accordingly”.

She fears that that creates “psychological pressure” on the Prime Minister

“to deliver what his backers want rather than what is in the best interests of the country”.

How can the Minister convince the people of the UK that the Prime Minister has the moral courage to resist that psychological pressure?

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