Keep floating, stop worrying

FEATURE - The real case for an independent pound has nothing to do with ultra-nationalism or hostility to Europe writes Samuel Brittan in Thursday's Financial Times. He suggests the British government allow use of the euro as a parallel currency and believes there is no early benefit to losing the floating pound or the MPC of the Bank of England.

The opponents of Britain's joining the euro at an early date are in danger of shooting themselves in the foot by their generalised hostility to

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