U.K. Businesses Counts Cost of Brexit Before It's Happened
- CBI’s Fairbairn sees billions of pounds in lost investment
- BCC’s Marshall warns of risk neglecting domestic agenda
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The costs of Brexit are already mounting before the U.K. has even left the European Union, the country’s biggest business lobby group said.
“There is the direct cost of what businesses are having to put into their businesses and their supply chains to protect themselves” from the impact of Brexit, Carolyn Fairbairn, director-general of the Confederation of British Industry, said in an interview at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham. “The other cost, which is less easy to see, is the investment that hasn’t happened as a result of Brexit uncertainty.”