Investors wary of stormy political and economic UK weather to come

ACROSS Europe, Parliaments are in recess. But UK Prime Minister Theresa May cut short her annual Alpine walking holiday last week to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron, and also despatched her new Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and other Cabinet ministers across the continent.

In what were seen as signs of desperation over the Brexit crisis at home, the strategy is aimed at persuading the Eur…