Construction industry gossip: That's the way to live

By Hansom2019-04-12T05:00:00

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Gleeds chair Richard Steer, an avid Brexit remain advocate, has taken up a new non-executive role at Cambridge housebuilder This Land. The firm is chaired by former Tory MP and transport minister Steve Norris, who happens to be a big fan of Brexit lately and has retweeted a claim that a “no-deal Brexit will be the biggest catastrophe to hit the UK since the Millennium Bug”. It’s fair to say Steer remains unconvinced. “Nobody except a select number of zealots or attention-seekers really thinks that a no-deal Brexit outcome works,” he wrote in Building earlier this year. Wouldn’t it be good to be fly on the wall at this firm’s board meetings in the coming weeks?

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