Category: 27bn

  • UK exporters face £27bn Brexit hit as smaller firms bear the brunt

    Small UK exporters have been hit hard by new post-Brexit barriers, contributing to a £27bn shortfall in goods sales to the EU since Britain left the bloc’s single market and customs union. Research by the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics reveals that Brexit led to…

  • How ministries spent 27bn on lavish travel

    Over a ten-day period until mid-December, trade ministry officials led a delegation of 63 officials to Burundi to participate in a trade agreement on micro and small enterprises, costing taxpayers Sh50.6 million. This comes less than three months after the House of Representatives directed that the size of government delegations…