Financial shares including those of Permanent TSB were boosted following upgrades of Irish banking by rating firms.

The UK’s new prime minister seems intent on refashioning his party in the image of the majority that voted for Brexit. First, he needs to win an election, says

Britain’s economy appears to have shrunk for the first time since late 2012 between April and June, as worries about Brexit were compounded by global trade tensions, according to a closely watched survey.

Yanis Varoufakis says an enormous sense of anxiety pervades the Brexit debate but a People’s Debate is a democratic way of squaring this circle and solving many issues.