The City Should Survive Brexit

In the first of a series of blogs from this year's Guernsey Funds Forum, James Falla reports on the Brexit views of Financial Times City Editor Jonathan Ford (pictured), our keynote speaker on the day.

Many of the economic issues which dogged the UK and Europe in 2010, when Jonathan Ford joined the Financial Times, are still present in the global economy today, even if they are bubbling beneath the surface.

There has been no real return to "normality", he said. "While they [these issues] have settled down to an extent, and there's been some anaemic recovery, it's rather like a health condition which becomes chronic. Day to day it doesn't cause too much discomfort but from time to time it can flare up in a rather nasty way."