A big, bad week in Brexit and Bitcoin – The Editor’s Desk

DUBLIN — In this episode, Alec Hogg and I look back on a chaotic week in Brexit. Theresa May secured a draft agreement, but defections from her own party have put its future in doubt. With some calling for a hard Brexit, it's anyone's guess what the future holds. Meanwhile, markets and businesses try to muddle through the uncertainty, at great cost. We also discuss Bitcoin, which had almost as difficult a week as May. Down over 60% on the year (and more than that from its December 2017 high), Bitcoin has broken free from a months-long period of relative stability and started to fall again. Alec Hogg has some interesting theories about why that is. – Felicity Duncan

Hello, and welcome to this week's episode of the Editor's Desk. I'm Felicity Duncan. This is BizNews Radio and with me, Alec Hogg. Alec, the only thing in the headlines this week, I'm sure where you are and, to a big extent, where I am, here in Dublin, was Brexit. It was a very big week in Brexit. Theresa May finally secured a draft agreement with her counterparts, on the European Union (EU) side, and brought that back home to Westminster and started trying to sell this deal to not only members of her own party but also obviously, Parliament and the UK as a whole. There were a number of high-profile resignations once the deal was revealed, and it has caused really, a political crisis, (to an extent). Everyone's eyes now on May, on what's going to happen, and on how this deal is going to progress. Do you want to give us a bit of a sense of what it's like on the ground in London?

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