Brexit in Turmoil After Elections

By Tina Fordham

Tina Fordham is Managing Director and Chief Global Political Analyst at Citi, the first to hold this position. Fordham is a member of the Corporate and Investment Bank Diversity Board and the Veteran's Network at Citi, and sits on the International Advisory Council for the foreign policy think tank Carnegie Europe, as well as the Advisory Board for the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. A fellow of the Aspen Institute's Socrates Society for emerging leaders, Fordham was appointed in 2016, by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, to the U.N.'s first High-Level Panel on Women's Economic Empowerment, which also includes IMF president Christine Lagarde. Fordham is a frequent commentator on CNN, the BBC, CNBC and Bloomberg as well as Davos. Previously, she served as senior advisor in the U.K. Prime Minister's Strategy Unit and head of global political risk at Eurasia Group, where she started the firm's financial markets research business. Fordham earned her master's degree in international affairs at Columbia University.

After British snap elections last Thursday, attention has turned back to Brexit negotiations between the EU and the UK, which began this week. Headline issues include the so-called exit fee that London is being asked to pay Brussels, as well as immigration issues and the status of EU citizens already working in the UK. The Cipher Brief’s Fritz Lodge spoke with Tina Fordham, Managing Director and Chief Global Political Analyst at Citi Research, about where the UK goes from here in negotiating its divorce and subsequent trade deal with the European Union.

The Cipher Brief: Can you talk a bit about the results from Thursday’s election – where that leaves the May government, whether she will survive, and for how long, in your opinion?

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