On the final day of Davos European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde talked up the benefits of Trump’s election for the sluggish EU bloc. There are few…
Lagarde refused at a panel appeareance to mention Trump but said the bloc could take angry Trump-haters:
“We need to keep the talent at home. We need to keep the savings at home. Maybe it is also time to import a few of the talents that would be disenchanted, for one reason or the other, from another side of the sea.”
Most influential Democrats are non-fussed and staying in New York anyway. At the same time Lagarde admitted executives are “not very upbeat” about future growth this side of the pond and said the EU leaders needed to “actually get their act together.” Might not be a good idea to rely on upset Democrats for an entire continent’s growth…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”