British billionaire Richard Branson issued a stark warning on the prospect for business in the event of a no-deal Brexit.warned that the value of the pound would collapse to parity with the dollar if the United Kingdom crashed out of the European Union without a deal.
Branson told the BBC that a hard Brexit would be “devastating” for Virgin and would lead the group to invest outside the U.K. Virgin Atlantic would lose $125 million of air freight contracts from Europe, after having already seen its costs rise by $125 million after the pound slumped in value following the 2016 referendum.
“The pound was at $1.53 when the referendum took place. The pound today it is at $1.22, $1.23, and the pound will collapse to parity with the dollar if there is a hard Brexit,” said Branson. Branson’s comments came as the British currency plunged to a two-year low of $1.24 against the dollar earlier this week. The pound has fallen in recent months over concerns about the health of the U.K. economy and the prospect that Boris Johnson, who has argued for no-deal Brexit, will become the U.K.’s next prime minister.
The pound last neared parity with the dollar in February 1985 when the pound fell to $1.05 off the back of a surging American economy.
The great economist Richard Branson... said nobody ever
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Branson fears the pound will be dead in a no-deal Brexit.🥴🙄🇬🇧💜🧐
What do you think about this adetush
Now where have I heard that before ? fuckwitcentral
What a feckin insight!!!!!!! Given its dropped 20% already anybody with half a brain would predict that. But then thats about all he has.
So I can go to London and not spend $12 on a Big Mac?
Certanly but not only the pound ..will collapse the english territorial integrity ..scottland will become a new state bunded with eu union
I never knew he made all of his money through fortune telling. Twat
Oh ok then thanks for that
thanks for warning ) i'm ready to get that risk )
Yup!
He looks like a rare breed of Ape . Who sits in his tree counting his fruit
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