How do I explain break in employment after my freelance business slowed down?

APPRENTICE star and West Ham United vice-chair Karren Brady answers your careers questions.

Here, Karren gives advice to a reader who wants to get back into an in-house role after years of freelance work.

Karren Brady gives you career advice

Q) I’ve enjoyed my 20-year career in marketing, but I’ve always wanted to work for myself and decided a couple of years ago to leave the job I’d been in for a while and go freelance.

At first, I had lots of work, but over the last year or so...