Weak pound could boost manufacturing, if manufacturing itself wasn’t so weak
by Guardian Staff from on (#2ZRCC)
Britain's productivity, management and skills training are all so woeful that agonising over a post-Brexit trade strategy is almost beside the point
George Osborne was a worried man. It was May 2016 and the EU referendum was only a month away. The polls were tight, much too tight for comfort as far as the then chancellor was concerned.
This had not been for the lack of effort on Osborne's part. He had published a Treasury paper looking at the long-term implications of Brexit and had orchestrated heavyweight overseas support for the remain side from the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organisation and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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