Britain will be economically worse off for leaving the EU, finance minister Philip Hammond said Wednesday, as Prime Minister Theresa May takes the Brexit divorce deal to a skeptical Scotland. What the prime minister’s deal does is absolutely minimize these costs,” Hammond said, ahead of the Treasury report’s publication. The poll also found that some 48 percent supported holding a new Brexit referendum and 34 percent were against. If MPs vote it down, Hammond said the government would “consider very carefully how to proceed” through “uncharted political territory”, by studying which MPs voted which way. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s pro-EU nationalist party is opposed to the Brexit divorce deal.

Source: Egypt Independent November 28, 2018 13:30 UTC