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[...] Mark Wood, former boss of Prudential Europe, revealed that he thought a vote to leave was clearly unlikely, adding: “If we were to come out, of course, we’d still be staying in because we can’t come out. It would take 15 years to disentangle.”
Wood told City A.M. after the event: “If we were to decide to exit from the free market in the autumn of 2016, the reality is that the pace at which we detached ourselves would be dictated by innumerable contractual relationships which currently exist between companies across borders.”
He added: “Commerce, rather than politics, will dictate the pace at which we exit the EU.”
Also at the EY event, Richard Buxton, chief executive and head of UK equities at Old Mutual Global Investors, agreed with Wood that an exit from the EU was unlikely, remarking: “There’s absolutely no way that the UK is leaving Europe.” [...]