Bill Esterson discusses Brexit fallout, the proposed small business commissioner role and his attempts to build regional support for entrepreneurs
It goes without saying that the shadow minister for business, energy and industrial strategy is concerned about the ramifications of Brexit, which he says are affecting SMEs already.
“Small businesses are telling me they are already losing contracts, they’ve already stopped recruitment,” Bill Esterson says. “That’s an early sign – small firms will catch a cold before the rest of the economy. We have to stay a member of the single market. Anything less than that will just be, if not impossible, then almost impossible, for many small firms to cope with.”
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Source: Guardian