Private Equity

Guy Hands: UK will need an IMF bailout if it doesn’t fix Brexit

Country is ‘on a path to be the sick man of Europe’, Terra Firma founder says

'A grown-up needs to take over the Conservative leadership and be a prime minister who represents everyone in Britain'
'A grown-up needs to take over the Conservative leadership and be a prime minister who represents everyone in Britain' Photo: Jason Alden/Getty Images

Private equity veteran Guy Hands accused the Conservatives of putting the UK economy “on a path to be the sick man of Europe”, heading for an International Monetary Fund bailout.

In an interview on BBC Radio 4’s agenda-setting Today programme, the founder, chair and CIO of the private equity firm Terra Firma said that without a Brexit renegotiation carried out by somebody with intellectual capability, “the economy is frankly doomed”.

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