City 'sideshow' reforms won't stop London's decline - seeing Brexit through will

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% :Mr Rolet also said that Brexit presents the UK with an opportunity to slash "bureaucratic" European regulation that he argued was "deeply adverse to equity markets".
55% : She has pledged to punish banks on the Continent for failing to shift lucrative clearing business out of the City of London post-Brexit.
52% : "At present, we have dividend tax, capital gains tax, income tax and a transaction tax via stamp duty, of which the UK has the highest rate in all of Europe.
52% : They do not understand why people would put economic arguments [first]," adding that the Commission had "very little of understanding" of clearing and saw Brexit as an opportunity to "grab it".
51% : He said: "The Europeans see Brexit as a political decision, so their answer clearly is a political one.
46% : He said: "If you want the UK to use Brexit as an opportunity to bridge the productivity gap, generate substantial equity growth, and fully leverage its fantastic universities and capacity for science and innovation, the only way to do that is to unleash the power of its equity markets."One of Mr Rolet's legacies at LSE was acquiring a majority stake in clearing giant LCH.
35% :Speaking to The Telegraph, the Frenchman warned that the only way to arrest the City's decline was to cut taxes and axe red tape in a total "recalibration of the UK's punitive fiscal and regulatory framework".
28% : Mr Rolet warned that Brussels' plan to onshore clearing activity poses a "systemic risk" to the European Union.

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