UK factory output dives to seven-year low on Brexit gloom

EU-based customers are ‘shunning British manufacturers’ ahead of possible no deal

A technician at work on a factory production line
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UK factories have suffered the sharpest drop in factory output for seven years as anxiety over a no-deal Brexit and the global economy hit the sector hard.

The latest snapshot from IHS Markit and the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply showed that activity sank in August to the lowest levels since July 2012. The Independent says the data is “predictably awful”.

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