Martin Wolf

There are weakness in technology.

We share with Europe.

Britain wasn't different from, and therefore didn't have completely different options from European countries.

We're very similar, the Germans, and they're all different in a certain ways, have different strengths, but actually in the big...

picture Britain is just another European country.

What else could it be?

Look at its history.

The only difference is it's got this tiny little waterway between us.

And that's preserved independence.

I'm not saying it's nothing, but essentially the opportunities and the challenges for the British economy are essentially those of Europe.

And leaving the EU hasn't suddenly given us an enormous number of new opportunities which allow Britain to transform itself.

And certainly no British political leader, and I can say this with some confidence looking at the whole lot, have any fundamentally new ways of operating here which are going to transform the performance of the country.

And that's become more and more obvious.

And it will be even more obvious if Nigel Farage or Zach Polanski becomes the next prime minister.

Nobody offers a coherent strategy for solving the problems of Britain as they are now.

And it's partly because they've actually genuinely become very, very difficult.

I'm almost speechless in response to that very, very good question because it's very difficult.

Part of the problem, I think, is I see a separation between Donald Trump as a person

very him, obviously charismatic and exciting, and his views of the world from that of the various different elements of the coalition that he's put together, which is a pretty strange coalition, pretty intellectually, culturally.

It includes, obviously, a very large number of spectacularly wealthy and powerful business people, some of whom have a religious belief in the future.