How UK cities can prepare for Brexit

Alexandra Jones writes about how city leaders can prepare their cities for Brexit

Press release published on 14 February 2017 by Alexandra Jones

The Centre for Cities’ latest report, Cities Outlook 2017, is our annual health-check on UK city economies and focuses this year on how much and where British cities export.

It finds that the EU is the biggest market for 61 out of Britain’s 62 largest cities, with only Hull selling more goods and services to a different destination (the US). Two thirds of British cities trade half or more of their exports to the EU, with even Derby – the city least reliant on EU markets – still selling a quarter of its exports to EU countries.

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