From the UK Telegraph, a piece that focuses on an Institute of Directors report:
- "... business people must not wait for the outcome of negotiations before undertaking their own planning and consultation in an attempt to minimise the potential for disruption to existing commercial relationships."
- companies should be more proactive than simply responding to the government's consultations and waiting for the result of the negotiations
- The IoD study also found that companies have recovered much of the optimism that was lost at the time of the Brexit vote
More here at the article (may be gated): Businesses told to take the lead in post-Brexit trade
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The headline on this post is from remarks further down in the article, from engineering and manufacturing trade body EEF
- Walking away from the EU is "not an option"
- The EEF wants a transition period, but argues for a longer term lasting "at least" five years
- "While the Prime Minister has warned of walking away and that no deal is preferable to a bad deal, that is not an option that business can accept because no deal means prolonged uncertainty and confusion"
- "We simply have to avoid the UK departing in haste if we want to avoid spending the next 30 years repenting."
