The level of political and economic uncertainty has been weighing on business sentiment in the UK ahead of the EU referendum as the latest polls so far published in May showed the support for Brexit has increased. The level of uncertainty in UK ahead of the June 23 EU referendum increased to record levels in April, according to the Economic Policy Uncertainty Index published on a monthly basis by a group of researchers at Stanford University in California. The index is based on newspaper coverage frequency with the key words focusing on policy-related economic uncertainty. The indices published in March and April ... (full story)