Departure from Europe has created problems and austerity has made them worse

The draft withdrawal agreement would severely curtail the advantages of leaving

Rather than rethink their busted economic model, European leaders will drive Italy into an unmanageable situation

The best hope now is a second referendum

The priority in the short-term is simply hanging on to what we already have

There would be some initial disruption but no long-term damage

Hammond is playing a high stakes game with the economy

State aid rules stop governments giving unfair handouts. Britain has pledged to keep them after Brexit, but how to build a regime that works?

The European Central Bank president faces an all too familiar problem in his final year at the helm

The main point of the budget was to avoid the real question marks looming over the UK’s economic prospects—Brexit and demographic strains