Who really owns Britain?
Foreign ownership in the British corporate sector means the sector will remain dependent on overseas funding post-Brexit
In explaining why he voted for Brexit, the actor Michael Caine recently resorted to striking language. “I’d rather be a poor master than a rich servant,” he said. “It wasn’t about the racism, immigrants or anything, it was about freedom.”
Caine’s worry about becoming a nation of servants is actually far more apposite than he probably realises. Certainly in his blissful assumption that by simply exiting the EU, Britain can once again be ...