Post-Brexit UK engineering must make its mark on the global stage

By Brian McConnell2021-02-08T06:00:00

While many firms have been swallowed up by American giants over the years, now it is our turn to push for international expansion, says Brian McConnell

I like to think I’m a “glass half full” kind of person – and a year in which we’ve suffered a global pandemic and left Europe has really put that to the test.

It’s fair to say Brexit has been a spectre hanging over the British economy since the referendum in 2016. As each new deadline came and went, it had an ever-growing impact on the confidence that so much of UK construction depends on. With endless political back-and-forth, the whole process had an incrementally negative effect on the sector.

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