{"id":5459,"date":"2018-12-14T08:39:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T08:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/brexit-no-deal-will-near-bankrupt-uk-says-branson\/"},"modified":"2018-12-14T08:39:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T08:39:06","slug":"brexit-no-deal-will-near-bankrupt-uk-says-branson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/brexit-no-deal-will-near-bankrupt-uk-says-branson\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit: No-deal will near-bankrupt UK, says Branson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Sir Richard Branson\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/3777\/production\/_104799141_branson_pa.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Virgin Galactic<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Sir Richard Branson has warned that the UK will be left &#8220;near bankrupt&#8221; in the event of a hard Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>He told the BBC he was &#8220;absolutely certain&#8221; that leaving the EU without a deal would lead to the closure of &#8220;quite a few British businesses&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said Prime Minister Theresa May had admitted that her version of Brexit was not as good as staying in the EU.<\/p>\n<p>The entrepreneur was speaking from California after attending the latest Virgin Galactic space launch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Theresa May needs to be 100% honest with the public,&#8221; Sir Richard said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s admitted that a hard Brexit would be an absolute disaster for the British people. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From our Virgin companies&#8217; point of view, a hard Brexit would torpedo some of our companies,&#8221; he said, adding that Virgin Holidays would be hit as the pound would drop to parity and not many people would be able to afford to go abroad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If British business suffers, British people will suffer, and it&#8217;s really really important that people realise that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46564524\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Virgin Galactic Sir Richard Branson has warned that the UK will be left &#8220;near bankrupt&#8221; in the event of a hard Brexit. He told the BBC he was &#8220;absolutely certain&#8221; that leaving the EU without a deal would lead to the closure of &#8220;quite a few British businesses&#8221;. He said Prime Minister Theresa &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}