(REUTERS) – British consumer morale rocketed back to pre-Brexit levels in September, a survey found, confounding expectations that the vote to leave the EU would wreak more lasting damage on Briton’s willingness to spend.
(REUTERS) – The shock over Britain’s decision to quit the European Union has been overcome for now, Ifo economist Klaus Wohlrabe told Reuters on Monday after the institute’s monthly survey showed business morale in Germany surging in September.
The world’s ‘leading’ economic think-tank, repeatedly cited by the Chancellor to push ‘project fear’, has humiliatingly U-turned on its ‘doomsday’ Brexit warnings, predicting strong growth for the UK.
LONDON, Sept 22 (Reuters) – Sterling rebounded from a five-week low against the dollar on Thursday, boosted by renewed weakness in the greenback after the Federal Reserve kept monetary policy steady and projected a less aggressive path for rate hikes in coming years.
EDINBURGH, Sept 22 (Reuters) – The University of Oxford has become the first British university to top the Times Higher Education’s global league table, knocking the California Institute of Technology into second place.
LONDON (Reuters) – The sharp fall in sterling since Britain voted to leave the European Union has encouraged tourists to go on a spending spree, providing a little relief for the economy as it faces an overall sharp slowdown.
A Conservative Member of Parliament has slammed the BBC, claiming employees who talk negatively about immigration, the EU or doubt climate change are discriminated against.
LONDON (AFP) – The boss of popular British pub chain Wetherspoon on Friday mocked critics who had forecast economic disaster in the event of Brexit — and called on the government to scrap trade talks.
The bounce back in Britain’s economy from the initial shock of the Brexit vote has expanded to the country’s recruitment and housing markets, according to two surveys which had previously painted a bleak outlook.
Project Fear as a term is perhaps self-explanatory. It is a tactic the establishment has trialled in the United Kingdom since 2014, not dissimilar to the U.S.-style scaremongering campaign ads, but on an industrial, and global level
LONDON, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Sterling rose to trade near a 7-week high against the dollar on Tuesday, amid expectations that Britain had probably dodged a recession in coming months with the economy showing signs of resilience in the aftermath of the shock Brexit vote.
Britain’s economy showed its clearest sign to date of bouncing back from the initial shock of June’s vote to leave the European Union, but a big slowdown in growth and a further Bank of England rate cut remain on the cards.
Nigel Farage hit back at accusations by a Clinton crony that the Russian government “openly fund[s]” “far-right” UKIP, Mr. Farage noting that the negative campaigning from the Clinton camp is “almost the mirror image” of Remain’s ‘Project Fear’ in the lead up to the European Union (EU) referendum.
Britain will never leave the European Union (EU) because the process is too complicated, a legal expert has claimed. His comments prompted UK Independence Party MEPs to warn that Project Fear is “alive and kicking”.
Britain’s high streets are heaving with shoppers despite June’s shock vote to leave the European Union, big companies have reported few signs of distress and some tabloid newspapers are even talking about a post-Brexit economic boom.
Shoppers in Britain shrugged off June’s shock Brexit vote as retail sales jumped by much more than expected last month, adding to signs there has been little immediate hit for consumers.
Retail sales have bounced back as good weather and summer sales outweigh concerns of the predicted ‘financial doom’ forecast by the Remain campaign’s ‘project fear’, giving way to a UK Brexit “feel good factor”.
Lloyds Banking Group, which blames massive job cuts and branch closures on Brexit this morning, doubling its pre-tax profits last year and has now admitted the cuts were planned long ago and have nothing to do with the referendum result.
(REUTERS) – GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L) plans 275 million pounds of new investments at three drug manufacturing sites in Britain, signalling its confidence in the country despite last month’s vote to leave the European Union. Britain’s biggest drugmaker, which had argued against
(AFP) – Online queries for European holiday flights to Britain soared after its voters chose to abandon the EU, travel web sites reported, offering a glimmer of hope for tourism in the country. People across Europe apparently rushed to find
In his Tuesday economic address in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump urged the American electorate to “reject” Hillary Clinton’s “campaign of fear,” and vote to reclaim economic independence.
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s top share index bounced back on Tuesday following two straight sessions of steep losses as insurers and banks, hit hard in the aftermath of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, led the market higher. The
Dear Remainers, The morning after a senseless tragedy which has appalled the whole of Britain I’d like to ask you a simple question: Is there any depth to which you will not stoop in order somehow to snatch victory in this EU referendum?
Data analysis of the campaigns being conducted in the run up to the EU referendum has shown that the Remain camp is overwhelmingly relying on Project Fear, deployed in particular in economic terms, while the Leave campaign is more positive
The Prime Minister is “menacing” voters in a desperate bid to get them to vote Remain in the referendum, former Mayor of London Boris Johnson has said. The Prime Minister stepped up Project Fear over the weekend, warning Britons that
The Conservative Party descended into open warfare yesterday as three MPs called for the Prime Minister David Cameron to resign over Project Fear. The calls have raised the possibility of a general election this autumn, to allow the Conservatives to
Just when you thought the scaremongering couldn’t get any worse, the leaders of the G7 nations have weighed in with their verdict on Britain’s EU referendum: apparently if the UK votes Leave it’s going to kill the global economy.
(REUTERS) – British Prime Minister David Cameron warned voters on Sunday that they would face higher grocery bills if the country decides to leave the European Union at a June 23 referendum, citing a potential drop in the value of
The Prime Minister David Cameron was plotting the campaign to keep Britain within the European Union (EU) even as he was assuring his own MPs and the country that he would recommend a leave vote if it was in Britain’s
Claims of impending economic doom if Britain votes to leave the European Union (EU) are exaggerated, a respected German economist has said. Martin Hüfner, a former Chief Economist at Germany’s second largest bank HVB, said that many who think Brexit
Leading Brexit campaigner Michael Gove has accused Cabinet colleagues of treating the British public “like children, unfit to be trusted” and needing to be “frightened into obedience”, as Conservative Party tensions boil over. Using the opportunity of a keynote speech from the campaign to
From The Times: …It’s a given now, in Scotland, that Project Fear won the day. The lack of a credible currency, the fear of investment flight, the spectre of vast reliance on a faltering oil price; all of these things
British Prime Minister David Cameron has been criticised for using “careless” language and fanning the flames of ignorance after he told voters that a vote to leave the European Union would be an act of “self-harm”. Arguing in the Telegraph that
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has been accused of scaremongering following the publication of its economic report on Brexit, described by critics as “thoughtless”, “purely political”, “self-interested” and “skewed”. The CBI — the voice of pro-European Union (EU) big business —
The founder of FTSE 100-listed finance company Hargreaves Lansdown said today the “little bit of unknown” that would result from the UK voting for Brexit in June’s European Union (EU) referendum would give the British economy a big boost. Speaking in
In a boost to Brexit campaigners looking to leave the European Union (EU), aircraft builder Boeing has selected Britain to house the company’s European headquarters, regardless of the outcome of June’s referendum. Defying the Remain campaign’s ‘Project Fear’-style warnings that a Leave
Campaigners for the UK to remain in the European Union (EU) have admitted that consumer-friendly caps on mobile telephone roaming charges for British users are “likely to stick” in a post-Brexit world. In selling the benefits of the EU to the electorate, cuts
Prime Minister David Cameron and Mayor of London Boris Johnson faced off against each other on the referendum campaign trail yesterday, each firing accusations that the other had made up claims to support their respective positions on the Brexit question.
Raising the spectre of another independence referendum, the Labour Party’s pro-Remain campaign leader has said that Scots could be justified in wanting to leave the UK in the event of Brexit. The pro-EU campaign leader and Labour Party Member of Parliament, Alan
Prime Minister David Cameron’s efforts to keep Britain within the European Union have been dealt another blow as the cosmetics giant Avon has announced plans to move its headquarters to the UK despite the referendum on EU membership. Pro-Brexit campaigners
