15 January 2021

Britain’s immediate economic prospects are grim


FOR THE four-and-a-half years since Britain′s referendum on membership of the European Union, firms have been worrying about the impact of Brexit. But Britain's transition out of the EU, completed on December 31st, did not end with a bang. The queues of lorries at Dover that had been widely predicted failed to materialise. Supermarket shoppers were not starved of green vegetables. And business has had other troubles on its mind.

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