we made in the past. if we are asking millions of people and businesses to pay more taxes, i think they deserve the right to be told and acknowledged that was part of the issue as to why that is happening. the big takeaway for me was there is no mention of trade. trade is 60% of the uk economy. it drives and safeguards and generates thousands ofjobs across every region in the economy, and there was no mention of it at all. the confederation of british industry is one of a growing number calling on the government to re—examine britain's post—brexit trading arrangements and the visa system supporting foreign labour. there is going to be quite a shallow recession, but the question really now facing policy makers, facing all of us, is how do we make sure it gets no worse, how do we make sure we come out of it at the end of the year? and that comes down to this serial british problem of business investment. what of energy prices and inflation? we return to our business editor, simonjack. we could be here in a few months�*