When Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016, nobody in the construction sector (or anywhere else for that matter) could have predicted that almost three years later we would be in the position we are now. For instead of leaving the EU, today marks a missed deadline of historic proportions with much of the country – and business in particular – aghast that Britain could still crash out without a deal.

We are just weeks away from a last chance deadline by which the UK will leave without a deal unless a way forward is found. In the increasingly unlikely event that the prime minister’s deal, already rejected twice by parliament, is voted through by MPs, this deadline would be extended until 22 May and, whatever one may think of the deal, there will at least be some semblance of certainty.

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