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12 November 2019

Watch: Britain’s election nightmare scenario

How the UK election could impact the markets and how any optimism over Brexit could quickly fade

Britain’s election nightmare scenario

Believe the opinion polls and Boris Johnson is on course to win the UK general election on 12 December. And that will be initially good for sterling if he gets his Brexit deal ratified by January. But no one is discounting the 'nightmare scenario' of a hung parliament, where no one can form a stable government. ING's James Smith looks at the possibilities, seeing as few people talk about 'probabilities' in British politics these days. 

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