Our most-read stories of the year also include Ryanair flight cancellations, Jamie Oliver closures and that Bank of England Brexit forecast
The rich got richer and the poor piled on more debt as shockwaves from the Brexit vote continued to reverberate in 2017.
Billionaire George Soros dismissed Donald Trump as a “con-man”, while Britain’s biggest chicken supplier was revealed to have been fiddling its food safety records.