Few phrases have extra capability to divide companies leaders than state support. However it’s one that we are going to hear much more about within the courageous new post-EU world. Boris Johnson swept to victory final December by promising to “get Brexit completed” and put British business first. He would change public procurement guidelines to “purchase British”: “We’ll again British business by ensuring we are able to intervene when nice British companies are struggling.”

It was this imaginative and prescient of a land of milk and honey, free of the shackles of European affect, that was so engaging for voters, notably in post-industrial areas. A lot of these former Labour “pink wall” seats had suffered many years of decline, leaving individuals more and more reliant on unstable and low-paying jobs.

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