IMF’s Lagarde wishes ‘fellow European’ Brits bon courage in EU vote

IMF chief Christine Lagarde urged British voters on Friday to have the “courage” to vote the right way in next week’s referendum on whether to leave the European Union.

Without explicitly urging Britons to vote “Remain”, she said there was a clear case by most economists against Brexit.

“It has been said that ‘it takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.’ So I wish bon courage to our fellow Europeans from the United Kingdom!” Lagarde said in a speech in Vienna.

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