Six months of Brexit: Business pays the price

Douglas Fraser Published 2 hours ago Share close Share page Copy link About sharing Related Topics Brexit Fresh food and haulage were first into the front line of Brexit, so how are they faring now? Some are settling down: others warn recruitment outside Europe is a growing problem, with consequences. For those and other sectors, including engineering, paperwork, delays and extra cost are harming their relations with European customers. The story of Brexit can be told in three-word slogans: Take Back Control, Brexit Means Brexit, Get Brexit Done. So five years after the referendum, and six months from leaving the single market, what’s the slogan from businesses most affected? Bureaucracy, delay, cost. Many businesses aren’t much affected. The 10% drop in the value of sterling during the night that results came in has been forgotten and priced in. Most firms don’t export. And the focus has been much more on the extraordinary challenges of surviving Covid-19 than on Brexit-16. Some businesses look to opportunities from the new regime. Some are already looking to the upside in more distant markets which British ministers are keen to open wider – Scotch whisky distillers among them, looking to an end of Australia’s 5%… Read full this story

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