Financial services risks becoming Brexit's orphaned child

Boris Johnson was elected last year with a clear mandate to get Brexit done and he delivered by taking Britain out of the EU on 31st January 2020. All that is left is to arrange Britain and the EU’s future relationship.

After 47 years of membership in the single market getting our new house in order is no small matter - particularly against the new year's eve deadline, when the current transition period will end and  Britain will become a third country with no access to the EU market. While the EU has always thought Britain would value access to the single market,  even if that meant continuing to adhere to EU rules, the UK has declared that it is ready to forego such access if it can "take back control" of its regulatory independence. But more than four years after the referendum, the UK government sti...