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Many social media users have mocked Leave.EU’s move and accused it of hypocrisy
Pro-Brexit campaign Leave.EU relocates to Waterford

Leave.EU, a pro-Brexit campaign bankrolled by UKIP backer Arron Banks, has migrated its registered office for its website to Waterford so that it can (...)

William Ackman, founder and chief executive officer of Pershing Square, made trades that reaped $2.6bn of profits during March’s coronavirus sell-off. File photograph: Scott Eells/Bloomberg
Investing during the coronavirus: moral outrage is misplaced

Coronavirus has wreaked havoc on international stock markets in recent months, but some investors – think short-sellers, hedge funds, bargain-hunting (...)

Channel 4 asked Brexiteer Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg if calculations that Somerset has set aside £7 million for him since the Brexit vote were correct. He declined to answer. Photograph: AFP/PRU
Rees-Mogg declares himself fan of Irish investment regime

Brexiteer Tory MP and proud wearer of top hats Jacob Rees-Mogg, featured in Monday night’s Channel 4 documentary, The Brexit Millionaires, in which he(...)

James Dyson’s announcement is more symbolic, and more curious, than any of those shifts
James Dyson’s decision to relocate reveals the hot air blown during Brexit debate

If James Dyson is as enthusiastic about the UK’s prospects when it leaves the European Union as he says he is, he has a funny way of showing it. The b(...)

Clint Eastwood in ‘The Outlaw Josey Wales’. Ireland still struggles with its financial “Wild West” tag. Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images
To ditch Ireland’s Wild West tag we must stop acting like cowboys

Ireland has never really managed to shake off the financial “Wild West” tag the New York Times used during the last boom to decry this State’s light-t(...)

Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg is a prominent hardliner on Brexit. Photograph: PA Wire
Irish investment vehicle linked to hardline Brexiteer Rees-Mogg warns of Brexit risks

Somerset Capital Management (SCM), a London investment firm co-owned by prominent Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg, has launched a new investment vehicl(...)

Theresa May is braced for a possible French raid on Britain’s £8tn asset management industry, amid fears the sector might be the most exposed part of the City after Brexit
Britain braced for Brexit raid on £8tn asset management industry

Theresa May is braced for a possible French raid on Britain’s £8tn asset management industry, amid fears the sector might be the most exposed part of (...)