Pound hits $1.30 amid Brexit deal and trade war hopes - as it happened

Press quote (The Guardian)
Sam Lowe
21 October 2019

"A while ago I wrote a paper in which I estimated the potential impact being in a free trade agreement (much like the one Johnson wants) would have on UK services exports to the EU." As you can see, the work (by trade expert Sam Lowe of the Centre for European Reform) suggests a free trade deal would cause severe damage to some UK service sector exports -- particularly the City...