Britain's five biggest business groups have joined forces for the first time and promised to make a success of Brexit as the UK starts the process of leaving the European Union.
In a letter to The Sunday Telegraph, the five organisations, which speak for companies employing more than half of workers in the private sector, around 13 million people working in manufacturing, services, construction and agriculture, pledged to work with firms from “all corners of Britain”. [...]
The five – the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), Institute of Directors (IoD), Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation – represent more than 400,000 UK businesses. [...]
The groups said industry input into the negotiations was crucial if businesses were to keep hiring and investing to boost the economy and raise living standards.
Carolyn Fairbairn, director general of the CBI, Adam Marshall, her counterpart at the BCC, and Simon Walker, the outgoing IoD chief who is joining the Department for International Trade as a board member, called for an “open and honest dialogue”. The letter is also signed by FSB chairman Mike Cherry, and Terry Scuoler, the EEF’s chief executive. [...]
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