The Stoxx Europe 600 is up only marginally this year in dollar terms, and trails the S&P 500 this year by the widest margin on record, even after a Friday sell-off on Wall Street. According to analysts from Barclays, a big “Trump premium” had opened up between the two stock markets.

European stocks dropped the most in over three months, amid worries that President-elect Donald Trump’s policies will stoke inflation and that his plans to increase tariffs could hit growth in the region.

The UK is kind of caught in the middle of these two forms of economic model and I believe that Britain would be better off moving towards more of the American model of economic