Brexit: a soap opera that needs an ending

By Richard Steer2019-04-10T05:00:00

None of this self-serving political melodrama is going to help us build things

The last two-and-a-half years has seemed like the political and economic equivalent of a slow-motion car crash. Is it any wonder we see the latest data from IHS/Markit showed that activity fell again among commercial firms and civil engineers, with a small uplift in housebuilders. Architects to whom I speak are beginning to be seriously impacted and the dearth of vacancies in their practices is a grim illustration of the stultifying effect Brexit is having on us all.

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