Welcome to FN Weekend, your Friday smörgåsbord of the best news, features and opinion from Financial News this week.
A colleague enquired this week whether I had seen any analyst notes drawing parallels between England’s World Cup tussle with Belgium and the Brexit battle raging in London and Brussels. I had not. No big deal, I said: they’d all be terribly tenuous. Perhaps I’ll prove myself wrong with this intro. But probably not.