Martin Vander Weyer Martin Vander Weyer

The City says it’s for staying in but I wonder what the big beasts think

Also in Any Other Business: Boris and the pound; Standard Chartered; China’s incompetent stock-market regulators

issue 27 February 2016

‘The City is in no doubt that staying in Europe is the only way ahead,’ declared Mark Boleat for the City of London Corporation. Likewise Chris Cummings of the lobby group TheCityUK praised David Cameron for delivering ‘a really special deal’. The official Square Mile is squarely for ‘remain’, confident that the Prime Minister has secured safeguards to let the UK keep control of a thriving financial sector in a multi–currency EU.

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