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Real world economics: Brexit uncertainty and British business

Geoff Riley

29th June 2018

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When it comes to planned capital investment, uncertainty about macro policy including trade can be a big barrier to pushing the button and going ahead with expensive capital projects. I have rarely seen a clearer example of how Brexit uncertainty is impacting on businesses that this BBC Newsnight visit to Survitec - a British business with some outstandingly innovative products in growing demand across the world.

Brexit uncertainty and British business
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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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