Every year, the leading business networking group, E2Exchange or E2E, holds a gala event in London, usually in Mayfair. E2E connects ambitious SMEs, entrepreneurs and investors. Their lead speaker is often Lord Karan Bilimoria, the Cobra Beer founder and former president of the CBI.
Bilimoria likes to begin by asking for a show of hands: who thinks Brexit was good for business; who believes it is bad? On the first, not one hand ever shoots up — I tell a lie, over several years attending these occasions I once saw a solitary palm raised, by a Tory life peer and pro-Brexiteer, who appeared shamefaced as he indicated his support. Otherwise, nothing.
