{"id":376232,"date":"2018-09-05T21:49:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T20:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-former-bank-of-england-governor-slams-brexit-approach\/"},"modified":"2018-09-05T21:49:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T20:49:43","slug":"presstv-former-bank-of-england-governor-slams-brexit-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-former-bank-of-england-governor-slams-brexit-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Former Bank of England governor slams Brexit approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A former governor of the Bank of England has warned that Britain<\/strong> <strong>will remain as\u00a0 closely as possible to the European Union after it officially leaves the bloc in March, predicting that the government of Prime Minister Theresa May would fail to reach an exit deal with the EU.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mervyn King said in an interview with the BBC on Wednesday that Britain was probably heading towards a \u2018Brexit in name only\u2019,\u00a0a scenario he described as the worst of all worlds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t had a credible bargaining position,\u201d said King, BoE governor from 2003 to 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe EU has been united, has been clear, has been patient and it\u2019s the UK that\u2019s been divided without any clear strategy at all for how to get to where we want to go,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>King said BRINO, or the\u00a0Brexit in name only scenario, was inevitable given the current state of talks between the UK and the EU seems most\u00a0unwilling to compromise on its positions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth camps feel that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/05\/573271\/UK-Brexit-BoE-EU-talks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former governor of the Bank of England has warned that Britain will remain as\u00a0 closely as possible to the European Union after it officially leaves the bloc in March, predicting that the government of Prime Minister Theresa May would fail to reach an exit deal with the EU. Mervyn King said in an interview [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-376232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}