Pre-budget howls from big business beasts go deeper than the usual tax grumbles

Top executives say ministers don’t ‘get’ business, they aren’t listening, and key decisions are fluffed or take too longIt might be tempting, if you are sitting in Downing Street, to dismiss the current pre-budget howls from big business beasts as standard stuff from usual suspects.Archie Norman, the Marks & Spencer chair who told the Telegraph the government’s workers’ rights proposals were “a political indulgence that the country cannot afford”, is a former Tory MP. Stuart Rose, who told the Times that he believed “we’re genuinely at the edge of a crisis”, is a Tory peer. Continue reading...

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