Comment: 'Start-ups you have been warned - the threat of Brexit is very real'

Britain in 2019 will be a very different economy to the one start-ups know now, writes Leanna Byrne

Come what May, start-ups need to be ready Pic: Getty

It is two days since Theresa May, the British prime minister overseeing the biggest shift British and European foreign policy in half a century, dealt a hefty blow.

“I want to be clear. What I am proposing cannot mean membership of the Single Market,” she said.

Instead, Britain is seeking “the greatest possible access to it through a new, comprehensive, bold and ambitious Free Trade Agreement”.

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