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The prospect of the UK leaving the European Union has provoked much debate since the general election. The Conservative Party has promised to renegotiate the terms of the UK's membership and put the new deal to voters in a referendum by 2017, which could lead to the British taking the exit door. The influential economist Roger Bootle analyses what the markets are making of the issue.

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