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COLUMN-Markets sleepwalk as British election looms: James Saft

31 March 2015

Lower trade with the EU would knock British economic output down by between 1.1 and 3.1 percentage points, according to a study by the London School of Economics. Foreign investment would surely drop and new roadblocks to skilled immigration might appear.

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