David Cameron, Brexit Britain has woken up this morning to the news that it will be leaving the European Union. The decision, won by a majority of just four percent, is not just the result of months of campaigning by Brexit supporters, but four decades of latent Euroscepticism. The populist will of the people has overruled warnings from politicians, economists, historians and all manner of other experts and set Britain on an uncertain course. Britain’s exit from the EU has so far got off to a fairly poor start with shares plunging, knocking more than £100bn off the FTSE 100 as the pound plummeted to a 31-year low as panicked traders reacted to the vote and the prospect of recession amid months of market turmoil. Outside the UK, the repercussions of the referendum have been felt across the continent, with the main index in Germany down 10 percent, along […]