Unstable May government might have to soften Brexit
The general election “has changed everything” regarding the UK’s Brexit negotiations, lawyers claimed as their profession leapt to analyse the implications of a hung parliament.
A hung parliament has “surely sunk any chance” of the prime minister pressing ahead with merging the Serious Fraud Office with the National Crime Agency, predicted a leading white collar crime lawyer.
David Corker, a partner at the London law firm Corker Binning, said the proposal was dead in the water. And Marcus Thompson, a partner at the London office of the American firm Ropes & Gray, agreed. “Plans for the future of the SFO will be very low down the list of priorities for whoever is in Downing Street in the next few months,” Thompson predicted.
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