Business leaders react with dismay to Brexit ‘circus’
Business groups have reacted with dismay to parliament’s second rejection of Theresa May’s Brexit deal, saying they were exasperated by the lack of clarity over the UK’s trading arrangements with the European Union after 29 March.
The pound briefly recovered some of its losses during the day in the minutes after the vote on Tuesday, before sliding again as currency traders worried that a no-deal Brexit had become the more likely outcome.
