British expats buy cheaper pints as Brexit chaos threatens Spanish idyll


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  • Wednesday, 16 Jan 2019

FILE PHOTO - Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May is seen on a TV screen in a bar at Benavista Bowls Club in Estepona, southern Spain January 14, 2019. REUTERS/Jon Nazca

BENALMADENA, Spain (Reuters) - In the bowling clubs, bars and real estate agencies of Spain's southern coast, a long-established expatriate population is turning frugal as Britons fret about their future.

"There's hardly anybody out, and they're not spending a lot," said bar owner Kevin Sharp on Tuesday night, minutes after lawmakers in London snubbed Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal to leave his birth country's departure from the EU in disarray.

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