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LEP invites Brexit views

Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership is seeking local business views on Brexit at a meeting in Stafford.

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Businesses are being invited to attend the two-hour event in County Buildings on March 28 at 1pm.

The LEP wants to hear views on the opportunities and challenges ahead.

There will also be an update on the thinking that has already been done about Brexit’s implications for the Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire economy by local partners from the public and private sector.

It will take the form of a working lunch and businesses wishing to attend need to e-mail peter.barker@staffordshire.gov.uk

The event is being co-hosted by Staffordshire County Council, the Federation of Small Businesses and the Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce.

The keynote speakers include Councillor Alastair Little, who chairs the all-party member group on external affairs at the council.which has developed a new report into impacts of Brexit for the area and is asking interested businesses to comment and help to shape this further.

Joining him on the panel will be David Frost, chairman of the Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire LEP; Sara Williams, chief executive of the chambers and Karen Woolley, development manager for Staffordshire and West Midlands Federation of Small Businesses.