Businesses in the North can still gain a Brexit boost

Immediately after the crushing loss of over 1,000 local election seats by the Conservative Party last week, sterling strengthened to its best in over 12 months pushing the euro down to and taking some of the pressure off hard pushed Irish exporters to the market.

A bird never flew on one wing and the momentum for the pound was assisted by positive comments from Bank of England governor Mark Carney, who seemed to have his own crystal ball indicating positive prospects for a Corbyn/May deal.