A business guide to the Labour and Conservative manifestos
What are the Labour and Conservative manifestos offering the UK’s small to medium businesses?
Tag: Labour
Why no political party has a great plan to change the broadband landscape
Real Business unveils what the three main parties had to say about changing the broadband landscape and why their plans won’t meet expectations.
It’s important to use your general election vote to voice your personal needs
With only a few days to go until our country takes to the polling booths for a general election vote, it’s more crucial than ever for people to elect a party that has our best interests at heart.
May 2017 economic statistics: All the figures SMEs need to know
With 8 June so close at hand, we decided to turn the direction of our May 2017 economic statistics report towards the impact of the general election.
General election business pledges in five bullet points per party
The manifestos British political parties publish ahead of a vote are pretty long these days, so Real Business has summarised the general election business commitments.
General election 2017 could make entrepreneurs as rare as hen’s teeth
Throughout the 1970s, entrepreneurs were as rare as hen’s teeth. Then, when our country made the historic decision to elect its first female prime minister, that all changed.
The Brexit opinion: Who and what and where
By Staff writer
The outcome of the EU referendum last June continues, so to help business leaders with their Brexit opinion, here’s the who, what and where of latest developments.
Jeremy Corbyn’s Virgin train stunt compromised Labour’s values and ethics
The PR team of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn could learn something from the way businesses go about communicating with the public after his attempt to showcase the “crowded” nature of British trains backfired.
George Osborne is right when he talks of risk we should fear global jitters
By Jan Cavelle
Chancellor George Osborne is to warn of the dangers of complacency in his New Year’s speech. And while it pains me to agree with him, I think, if anything, he is under-playing that danger.
Under Labour, would entrepreneurship throughout Britain lose all incentive to succeed
By Jan Cavelle
It’s worrying that a party which failed to secure enough votes during the last general election, due to a perception that it didn’t have a firm grasp of economic and business polices, should veer so sharp to the left.