OECD Gurria Says ‘Boiling Anger’ Pushed U.K. Toward Brexit Vote
- Lack of job security fueling Brexit-style outcomes: OECD
- Economic warning on Brexit ‘proving us right’ daily: Gurria
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned a lack of job security and wage growth is driving political fragmentation and was one of the reasons British voters opted to leave the European Union.
“We’re at almost 10 years after the onset of the financial crisis and large numbers of people are willing to vote for some vision of change,” OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria said in an interview in Paris -- his first since the Brexit vote. “You just have to look around to see the fragmentation of political systems.”