#Brexit Could Mean Big #Business for #London Bankers and Lawyers

If Britain leaves the European Union, it’s going to need negotiators, and lots of them. Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee thinks it knows where it can find them: London’s financial sector.

A vote on June 23 for a so-called Brexit would leave Britain facing the prospect of negotiating trade agreements with more than 50 countries, as well as its new status with the EU, the cross-party panel of lawmakers said in a report published Tuesday.

With Britain not having negotiated a free-trade agreement of its own in more than 40 years, the government would, it said, have to acquire the skills “in a hurry and to scale.

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