IMF's Lagarde warns Brexit is a "concern for the whole world"
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Head of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde has been speaking in Vienna where without calling on Britain to vote to stay in the EU she did say there was a clear economic case against an out vote.
Europe is always stronger when it stands together. https://t.co/iFG6GXi3pNpic.twitter.com/wugDefl7Oz
— Christine Lagarde (@Lagarde) June 17, 2016
Lagarde was due to present an IMF report
on the risks to British
economy if the country votes to leave the EU, but in the light of the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox the report has been postponed and will be released on Saturday.
IMF’s Christine Lagarde Says Being in EU Has Made UK Economy Richer https://t.co/nM7O0QlG2x via
business</a> <a href="https://t.co/Y1hs5vHiuN">pic.twitter.com/Y1hs5vHiuN</a></p>— Dan Popescu (PopescuCo) June 17, 2016
What Lagarde did say was that the referendum is a “concern for the whole world.”