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ARTICLE · 09 JANUARY 2019

Brexit, The Final Run

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The Brexit clock keeps relentlessly ticking, counting down to an as yet unknown future for the UK.

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The Brexit clock keeps relentlessly ticking, counting down to an as yet unknown future for the UK.  With supposedly under three months before the axe falls there is little or no thinking time for businesses that have not created a contingency plan to meet all situations.  As the Brexit saga unravelled it has become all too clear that the attitude displayed by many businesses that “of course “they” will not let “X” “Y” or “Z” happen, “they” will work something out as this is all far too important not to” has proved to be an unsound premise. 

Theresa May’s tactic of delaying the parliamentary vote does not appear to have enabled sufficient support to have been whipped up for her deal and she still faces defeat. Europe edges closer every day to a no-deal Brexit with all the bleak implications the failure to strike an acceptable deal facing businesses and individuals.  For businesses that have no contingency plans for a no-deal Brexit there seems to be precious little

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