‘Everyone cites Covid and Brexit’: number of UK businesses going bust rises 52% in two years | The Observer 06/01/2024 In Business, Economy, UK “Interest-rate rises, inflation and skills and labour shortages all contributed to sharp increase in company insolvencies in 2023.” https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/06/uk-businesses-going-bust-covid-brexit?CMP=share_btn_tw #businesses #insolvencies United Ireland debate among issues looming large in 2024 | Irish Central Kent vegetable farmer says you need to be ‘half mad’ to do it – as more and more arable land sold off for housing | Kent Online Related Posts Strict new Brexit transport rules make UK businesses ‘give up’ on EU imports: ‘Simply not worth the hassle’ | City AM Johnson’s ‘global Britain’ is obsolete after US Afghanistan response | The Independent Where’s our Singapore-on-Thames? Brexit backers feel let down by high-tax PM | The Sunday Times Even older voters now realise Brexit was a bad idea | Metro News