Election comment – Many a slip between cup and hardcore Brexit

For my sins I committed Legal Business to a lengthy piece on the 2015 general election, focusing on the policies impacting the City, business and law, back in an era that now seems a decade away. You may remember that one: the Conservatives were to deliver stability against those Labour mavericks on the assumption that its pledged Brexit referendum was in the bag.

The sceptic may wonder as we wake up to the fourth major election result that has failed to follow the script since 2010 why Conservative-bred instability and currency devaluations are so much more acceptable than the ghastly socialist version? Or even when the Conservative Party decided to give up…well, being conservative.

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