UK ministers ask firms to drum up support for May's Brexit deal
LONDON - British government ministers have asked executives at leading companies to use their influence to boost support for Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal, one of the executives said, as a deadline looms for Britain to leave the European Union.
Business minister Greg Clark, junior trade minister George Hollingbery and Jim Harra, a senior official in the UK tax office, asked business leaders on the call to try to persuade the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party and other lawmakers to swing behind May’s position, the executive said.Britain is due to leave the world’s largest trading bloc in just over two weeks but has no firm divorce agreement yet.
“I’m afraid that, for some businesses in our supply chain for example, the businesses will fail before the help gets there.”
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