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How will Brexit affect the City? Don’t ask the government

The government's much-vaunted Brexit 'impact assessments' are embarrassingly short of detail on the impact on financial services

Brexit Secretary David Davis
Brexit Secretary David Davis Photo: Getty Images

The Christmas period is sometimes used by governments to bury bad news. But if you're returning to work today, rest assured that the only thing you missed was the government burying no-news.

How else to describe the Brexit "sector analyses" published by Parliament's Exiting the European Union Committee on December 21? These are the reports that Brexit Secretary David Davis promised Parliament would analyse the impact of our exit "across the breadth" of the UK economy.

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