May's brilliant Cabinet transformation will boost Brexit chances
London
IN a series of lightening, brilliant moves, Theresa May has transformed her Cabinet to boost Britain's "Brexit" chances.
Both sterling and the stock market responded well to the first decisions of the UK's second woman prime minister. In a surprise step and backtracking on his previous predictions of gloom, Mark Carney, Bank of England governor, decided to keep interest rates unchanged at 0.5 per cent and this helped lift the sterling.
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