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Monday, January 2, 2017

Predictions for 2017: politics

A boy wearing a US flag facing a line of police in AmericaThe road ahead: how will the decisions of 2016 affect the next 12 months? CREDIT: GETTY

Let's be clear on policy for Brexit and climate change

The TelegraphNigel Lawson
By Nigel Lawson, Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Conservative member of the House of Lords and Chairman of the Global Warming Policy Foundation
No crystal ball is needed to predict the dominant political stories of 2017. For the UK it will be about Brexit: the triggering of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty at the end of March to enable the UK to leave the European Union, the response of the EU and the subsequent discussions. For the wider world it will be all about the first year of the Trump presidency in the US.