Companies warn `huge gamble` on Brexit could add to Britain`s growing jobs crisis
(WorldNews Europe)

London (CNN Business)The United Kingdom has passed the point of no return. It has less than six months to reach a new trade deal with the European Union or risk heaping more pressure on companies that are already laying off tens of thousands of workers because of the coronavirus pandemic. More than 100 companies, entrepreneurs and trade organizations have written to Boris Johnson, warning the prime minister that erecting barriers to doing business with the United Kingdom`s biggest trading partner would put even more people out of work and lower living standards. The firms, many of which are in the manufacturing and chemicals sectors, have called for a new trade deal that matches current...