Atkins warns Brexit would herald “difficult” period for UK engineering June 16, 2016 Atkins has warned today that a Brexit vote next week would bring about a difficult period for the British engineering sector. "The whole British engineering industry would be in a much more difficult situation if Brexit were to happen," Uwe Krueger, chief executive of the design and engineering firm, told City A.M. Read more: UK Steel says industry [...]
EU referendum: Boris Johnson and Michael Gove push David Cameron to veto Turkey EU accession June 16, 2016 Leading Leave campaigners Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have urged Prime Minister David Cameron to veto Turkey's potential accession to the European Union. In a letter, Gove and Johnson have challenged Cameron to guarantee that Turkey will not join the EU by pledging the UK's veto. The letter comes as the pro-Brexit campaign has focussed more [...]
EU referendum: Influential Conservative MP Graham Brady says Tory infighting could “imperil” the party’s future June 16, 2016 Tories fighting "like rats in a sack" could end up putting the Conservative's future at risk, an influential backbench MP has warned. Chair of the Tory backbench 1922 Committee, Graham Brady has said that "blue on blue abuse" is damaging to the interests of the Conservative party. Writing in the Telegraph, Brady said: "Public in-fighting is [...]
Three of Britain’s largest employers have threatened to sue Vote Leave over Brexit-backing leaflets which included their corporate logos June 16, 2016 Bosses at three of the UK's largest employers have threatened legal action on Vote Leave after the Brexiteers included the firms' corporate logos in flyers. The chief executives of Unilever, Airbus and General Electric wrote a letter to the Leave camp yesterday, claiming that the letters constituted misrepresentation, as all three strongly back a Remain vote. In [...]
Mark Carney and Vote Leave trade blows over Bank of England’s referendum interventions June 16, 2016 Mark Carney has clashed with a top Brexit campaigner over the Bank of England's role in the referendum campaign in a tense exchange of letters, revealed this morning. Bernard Jenkin, a director at the official campaign group Vote Leave, wrote to the governor of the Bank of England earlier this week raising concerns he would make [...]
EU referendum: Leave camp pulls ahead in latest poll from Ipsos Mori which shows six point lead for Brexiteers June 16, 2016 The Leave campaign is ahead of the Remain side in the run up to next week's EU referendum, according to the latest poll from Ipsos Mori. The poll, conducted by Ipsos Mori and the Evening Standard, shows that the Out brigade have taken a six point lead, with 53 per cent of voters wanting to [...]
EU referendum: Conservative chancellors and leaders attack Bank of England and George Osborne for dishonesty June 16, 2016 Four Conservative grandees, including two former chancellors and a pair of ex-leaders, have accused the Bank of England of "peddling phoney forecasts and scare stories", as they lashed out at George Osborne's plans for an emergency Brexit budget. Writing in The Telegraph this morning, the group – chancellors Norman Lamont and Nigel Lawson, and former leaders Iain Duncan-Smith and [...]
Show us the money: MPs want Green to plug £571m hole in BHS pensions June 16, 2016 Sir Philip Green must make a “generous” contribution to the BHS pension fund and provide more detail on profits taken from the retailer while it was under his ownership, according to two influential groups of MPs. The call from Iain Wright MP, chair of the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee, and Frank Field MP, chair of [...]
Seven out of ten Tories think that a Brexit vote would be good for entrepreneurs, according to new research June 16, 2016 Seven in 10 Conservative MPs say that Brexit would be good for British entrepreneurs, according to a Yougov survey. In research commissioned by The Entrepreneurs Network, the pollster found that 88 per cent felt entrepreneurial activity would improve if the UK was exempt from EU business regulation, while 70 per cent said it would be better for [...]
UK firms are not ready for a Brexit vote next week, according to 80 per cent of change experts June 16, 2016 UK businesses are insufficiently prepared for next week's referendum result, according to eight out of 10 change management experts. In a survey of 400 interim managers brought in to help firms manage change, 80 per cent said that UK businesses were not ready for the Brexit vote. Read More: Single market alternatives are worse, non-EU businesses [...]