Time for some hostile-environment training
It is a choice between Brexiteers or Marxists for beleaguered businesspeople
WHEN Jeremy Corbyn addressed the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) last year at its annual jamboree, he was listened to politely, but perfunctorily. When the leader of the opposition gets up to do the same next week, however, Britain’s most important business lobby group will hang on his every word. Last year Mr Corbyn seemed barely in control of his own party, let alone the country. Now, after humiliating Theresa May’s government in the general election on June 8th, he could well be the next prime minister. Businesses have to take him seriously, whatever they think of his hard-left politics.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Brexiteer rock, Marxist hard place”
Britain November 4th 2017
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