More than one-sixth of trade posts within British consulates in the US have been axed, with 24 people losing their jobs and other vacancies left unfilled, out of 150 posts.
The regional trade directors and their staff had decades of experience and had built up contacts with American businesses from Google and Meta to the heads of Hollywood studios.
Jules Ehrhardt, a designer and investor, said there was outrage and disbelief in the British business community at the decision. They are tossing out collective centuries of relational and institutional knowledge core to the UK-US trading relationship.
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