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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Joanna Partridge

Tory backer says UK economy is ‘frankly doomed’ without Brexit renegotiation

A sign painted on the side of a house directs people to a local food bank in Leeds, England.
Guy Hands says he is worried about increasing poverty in the UK. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

The billionaire businessman Guy Hands has accused the Conservatives of putting the UK “on a path to be the sick man of Europe”, as he issued a series of stark predictions about what could lie ahead for the post-Brexit economy, including higher taxes and interest rates and fewer social services.

The founder and chair of the private equity firm Terra Firma, a longtime Tory supporter, called for the government to renegotiate Brexit, stating that otherwise the British economy was “frankly doomed”.

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