Uncertainty is the bane of any decision-maker's life, but periods of uncertainty are also when we most need someone to make some decisions. In our own personal lives, if we don't have a clue about how the future is going to pan out then it is a good excuse to avoid making anything but very short-term decisions. Most often, we just try to put things off, which just adds to the sense of drift. We are in the midst of incredibly uncertain times in the public policy sphere and for business leaders, senior civil servants and local government leaders, that makes life very hard. On one level, our approach to the EU, to citizens of that entity and to trade with it, are all now open question. Strangely, a referendum to decide our future relations with Europe once and for all seems to have done nothing of the sort.
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