No special Brexit bank deal as EU plays hardball

The EU is pretty unwilling to allow any concessions that would weaken the structures of the union’s edifice, writes Jim Power.

In recent times, I have tended to wax lyrical about the synchronised nature of the global economy over the past year and a half.

After the horrible decade we have lived through — both domestically and globally — good news was clutched with great enthusiasm, at least by me.