#AllOutEconomics Brexit & the UK economy’s rocky path

Vicky Pryce begins her #AllOutEconomics podcast by asking why the voice of business leaders is still not being heard by the government as the UK economy slows and confidence ebbs away. “In terms of Brexit we have had long periods when businesses were ignored and frustration grew as a result,” she said. In a week when Boris’s Johnson’s new government looks to have been boxed in by its own Proroguing of Parliament and the oppositions parties joining with 21 Tory rebels, subsequently expelled from the Conservative Party, to pass a Bill preventing a no-deal exit from the EU at the end of October 2019 the political tensions over #Brexit have become more unpredictable than ever. Commentators are asking if Johnson himself will have to resign having committed to “do or die” Brexit next month.