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Ministers deny government is a 'soft touch' after approving bonus for train guards
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I was in the room at Labour's investment summit and there was one repeated feeling
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Keir Starmer faces calls to sack key Cabinet member already after ￡1bn UK investment row
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Rachel Reeves gives biggest hint yet on what she's plotting to fill UK '￡22bn black hole'
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Rachel Reeves will 'breach' Labour manifesto promise with national insurance change
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Business leaders raise concern over new workers' rights laws
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Rachel Reeves fires warning to richest as Labour Budget D-day nears
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Rachel Reeves sent dire warning her plan risks completely 'screwing up' economy
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Rachel Reeves slams 'jobs tax' hike in resurfaced clip - as she now plans to do the same
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The two new UK laws and 15 bills Labour have already introduced in first 100 days
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Rachel Reeves warned "jobs tax" will destroy business confidence
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Rachel Reeves' dead hand economics and how she is digging a hole for herself
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New industrial strategy to target eight key sectors for Britain's growth
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Keir Starmer squirms as BBC reporter grills him over new tax hike threat
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Labour Party's P&O row shows Keir Starmer could be set for early departure
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Farmers warn UK 'walking into food shortages' as they beg Rachel Reeves to reconsider cuts
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Rachel Reeves's looming Budget will blow up in her face over this election promise
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Ministers deny government is a 'soft touch' after approving bonus for train guards
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National Insurance 'jobs tax' warning as pubs and hotels say they cannot take any more
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Rachel Reeves under pressure to change tax thresholds after state pension rise
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By Greg Smith Conservative MP for Mid Buckinghamshire
Labour’s looming package of union laws will be the biggest economic own goal since Gordon Brown said he had ended the cycle of boom and bust.
Their ‘New Deal for Working People’ will stifle investment, depress wages and slow growth. It is the wrong thing for our country.
It is no wonder they are trying to rush it through Parliament to meet their made up deadline of 100 days in power, which falls this Saturday.
Small and medium sized businesses are key to driving the growth to which this Government professes to aspire. They are the backbone of the economy. It is in Labour’s, and the country’s, interests to support them.
Instead, they fall in behind their union paymasters and dogmatically work against them. This package of measures will allow unions to hold companies to ransom, drown them in a tidal wave of red tape and put off investors.
It is no wonder that, with this pending economic disaster on the horizon, business confidence is shot, with the biggest one month drop of business confidence on record falling last month.
Nor is it a surprise that the Confederation of British Industry saying that almost 2/3s of employers say UK going to be a less attractive place to invest.
Or the chorus of Chief Executives saying this will cost small businesses thousands, the CEO of Currys even saying this plan risks “making people poorer”.
Instead of meeting small and large businesses and working out where they can work with them, all they seem to do is bow to the demands of the union barons who bankrolled their election campaign and tell businesses like Amazon they are wrong.
Politicians who have never run a business telling experienced business owners how to be more productive is arrogant and will only drive businesses away.
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Changes to business regulation are a good thing when done well. But that is not what is happening here.
Labour have always been the anti-business party. Starmer’s Government is doing everything to stay in this mould, leaving us all worse off.