General election uncertainty over the first half of 2015 led to a drop in new orders for contractor Carillion, the firm said last week in otherwise solid half-year results. Over the six months to June, the firm amassed new and probable orders worth £lbn, well down on £3.2bn for the same period in 2014, which the firm attributed to an "expected pause in public sector contract awards due to the UK general election".
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