The chairman of Marks & Spencer's has become the latest business leader to criticise the UK government's economic policy, with Archie Norman calling plans to ease post-Brexit trade 'overbearing' and 'baffling'
The chairman of Marks & Spencer's has become the latest business leader to criticise the UK government's economic policy, with Archie Norman calling plans to ease post-Brexit trade"overbearing" and"baffling".
"The simple fact is retailers already operate in real-time digital information - day or night, at the click of a button, we can locate our products, be that in a depot, in transit or in a store. But Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris insisted yesterday that London is not setting any deadlines on the talks over the contentious trading arrangements.
Mr Norman said in May that EU proposals for administering the protocol are"highly bureaucratic and pretty useless" given UK food standards are"equivalent or higher" than those set by Brussels.
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