On Tuesday afternoon, Boris Johnson held a conference call with the U.K.’s business leaders to urge them to get ready for Brexit to hit at the end of the year. But instead of winning them over, he left them offended. Some executives believed the prime minister was accusing them of being apathetic and dragging their feet when they should be preparing for the upheaval of leaving the single market and European Union customs regime. “The WhatsApp group chats all got going straight afterwards and there was a genuine and palpable anger about using that word ‘apathy,’” one person on the call said. After a year in which many ... (full story)