Bank of England issues stark recession warning over no-deal Brexit

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>The Bank of England has warned Britain would be tipped into a recession worse than the financial crisis in the event of a no-deal disorderly Brexit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The apocalyptic outcome&comma; contained in the Bank’s analysis of various EU withdrawal scenarios&comma; would also see the pound crash&comma; inflation soar&comma; interest rates jump&comma; growth plummet and unemployment skyrocket&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the event of a disorderly Brexit&comma; which entails Britain failing to reach an exit deal with the European Union or securing a transition period&comma; Britain’s GDP could fall by 8&percnt;&comma; according to a worst case scenario modelled by the Bank&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The unemployment rate would rise to 7&period;5&percnt;&comma; inflation would surge to 6&period;5&percnt; while interest rates would rocket as high as 5&period;5&percnt;&period; House prices are forecast to decline 30&percnt; and the pound would fall by 25&percnt; to less than parity against both the US dollar and the euro&comma; according to the bombshell report&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Governor Mark Carney said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;These are scenarios&comma; not forecasts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They illustrate what could happen&comma; not necessarily what is most likely to happen&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;In a disorderly Brexit scenario&comma; the bank said UK trade would decline sharply while the economy will be dragged down by lower labour supply and productivity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The central bank also said that there could be weak income growth and tighter fiscal conditions&comma; which may weigh on consumer spending and business investment&period; Prime Minister Theresa May is aiming to convince sceptical MPs to back her EU withdrawal agreement reached with Brussels&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Parliament is set to vote on the deal on December 11 and if the deal is not approved it will see the UK face a cliff edge&comma; no transition&comma; EU exit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Bank’s doomsday analysis came hours after the Government released its own impact assessment&comma; which found that withdrawal from the EU under Mrs May’s plans could cut the UK’s GDP by up to 3&period;9&percnt; over the next 15 years&period; But leaving without a deal could deliver a 9&period;3&percnt; hit to GDP over the same period&comma; said the analysis produced by departments across Whitehall&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And the UK will be poorer in economic terms under any version of Brexit&comma; compared with staying in the EU&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Bank added that in the event of a disruptive Brexit&comma; where there is little or no change to border trade or financial markets&comma; GDP may fall 3&percnt;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In this scenario&comma; the unemployment rate will hit 5&period;75&percnt; and inflation rises to 4&period;25&percnt;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;House prices decline 14&percnt; and commercial property prices fall 27&percnt;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The pound would fall by 15&percnt; against the US dollar to 1&period;10&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; if the Conservatives can strike a deal that sees a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;close” economic partnership with the EU&comma; which includes free trade in goods and some trade in business and financial services&comma; GDP could rise by as much as 1&period;75&percnt; over the next five years<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Alongside the analysis of Brexit scenarios&comma; the bank said the country’s major lenders are strong enough to contend with a disorderly the resilience to withstand Brexit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Bank concluded from stress tests carried out on banks that they &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;have the levels of capital and liquidity to withstand even a severe economic shock that could be associated with a disorderly Brexit”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The UK banking sector is strong enough to continue to serve UK households and businesses even in the event of a disorderly Brexit&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The stress tests put the UK’s seven largest banks&comma; Lloyds Banking Group&comma; Barclays&comma; Royal Bank of Scotland&comma; HSBC&comma; Santander&comma; Nationwide Building Society and Standard Chartered&comma; through extreme scenarios&comma; equivalent to the UK crashing out of the EU without a deal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Carney said stress tests on the UK’s major lenders reveal that the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;core of our financial system is strong” and that major banks have &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;capital ratios three and a half times higher than before the financial crisis”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Canadian added that major British banks have &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;ample liquidity to withstand a major market disruption”&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They hold more than £1 trillion of high-quality liquid assets and can access an additional £300 billion of liquidity through the Bank of England’s regular facilities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Major UK banks now can withstand many months without access to wholesale or foreign exchange markets&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Financial Conduct Authority will publish its Brexit analysis on Thursday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e34b990ee47">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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