Hargreaves Lansdown founder Peter Hargreaves has called for a no-deal Brexit, guaranteeing his entire £3.6bn fortune such an arrangement would give the UK "free trade with Europe".
Hargreaves, who reportedly donated more than £3m to the Leave campaign in the run-up to the EU referendum, slammed the current management of the UK's divorce from the European Union in an interview with Bloomberg, adding none of the country's Brexit negotiators "know the art of the deal". He said: "There is not one person on our Brexit team that has a clue...
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