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2 Apr 2019

No-deal Brexit ‘catastrophic’ for business, says top civil servant

Washington Correspondent

Britain’s top civil servant has warned that a no-deal Brexit would be “catastrophic” for British business.

In a letter leaked to the Daily Mail, Sir Mark Sedwill told ministers the UK could be plunged into recession, see soaring food prices, and predicted that some businesses which trade with the EU could face collapse.

We have been at one company which has serious worries about the imminent future.