Brexit ‘shameful’ says former HSBC boss Stephen Green

The former head of Europe’s biggest bank and a former Tory trade minister has said he is “ashamed” of how the UK has treated Ireland on Brexit negotiations.

Stephen Green, who was the chief executive of HSBC Bank and former minister of state for trade and investment in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition, was the first guest speaker at the Autumn Lecture series of Limerick Civic Trust.

The event at St Mary’s Cathedral, which included the Irish Examiner as a sponsor, heard Mr Green speak about the European identity and the future of the EU.