How Politics Broke Up with Business
Why have politicians gone from cosying up to businesses to turning a deaf ear to their concerns? Spoiler alert - it's not just Brexit.
Why have politicians gone from cosying up to businesses, to turning a deaf ear to their concerns? Jeremy Schwartz – a CEO himself – finds that the love affair was starting to become toxic long before Brexit, and asks whether it’s really such a bad thing if governments no longer care what business leaders think.
Contributors include:
Andrea Leadsom – Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Frances O’Grady – General Secretary, TUC
Iain Anderson - Executive Chairman, Cicero
Giles Wilkes – Former Special Adviser to the Prime Minister
Helen Dickinson – Chief Executive, British Retail Consortium
Andy Street – Mayor of the West Midlands, former CEO of John Lewis Partnership
Joe Owen – Institute for Government
Paul Walsh – Chairman, Compass Group
Presenter: Jeremy Schwartz
Producer: Beth Sagar-Fenton
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- Sun 29 Sep 2019 21:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Thu 3 Oct 2019 20:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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