"Britain’s manufacturers are enjoying buoyant conditions on the back of export markets going from strength to strength," announced the Engineering Employers Federation (EEF) in a press release, following a "major survey" of some 416 manufacturing firms.
"Manufacturers appear to have taken the recent political upheaval in their stride," noted EEF chief economist Lee Hopley, with the cheaper pound boosting British firms’ competitiveness abroad ‐ as experts predicted.