Gleeds blames Brexit for job cuts

By Will Ing2019-05-30T05:00:00

Director brought in from Buro Four to grow London PM business goes after a year

Gleeds has said that Brexit is to blame after the firm confirmed it had cut staff numbers with its London arm understood to have borne the brunt of the cost-cutting.

The firm’s chairman Richard Steer has been a persistent critic of the way the government has handled the UK’s departure from the EU and last autumn he told business secretary Greg Clarke: “This has cost us as a business, and others, and it is getting worse not better.”

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