Important businesses are losing patience with the UK government over progress — or rather lack of it — in the Brexit negotiations. With just 10 months to go before Britain leaves the EU, that is entirely comprehensible. Airbus, for example, has threatened it might pull out of the UK altogether if no trade deal were agreed. Amazingly, Jeremy Hunt, health secretary, responded that it was “completely inappropriate for businesses to be making those kind of threats”. Is this the “party of business”?
對於英國退歐談判進展(或者說根本沒有進展),重要企業正在失去對英國政府的耐心。這是完全可以理解的,畢竟現在距英國離開歐盟只有10個月的時間了。例如,空巴(Airbus)威脅說,如果沒有達成任何貿易協議,它可能會徹底退出英國。令人驚訝的是,英國衛生大臣傑瑞米•杭特(Jeremy Hunt)回應說,「企業做出這種威脅是完全不合適的」。保守黨還是「商業黨」嗎?