The Labour Party’s grand bargain with business
What would a new British government mean for boardrooms?
EARLIER THIS year the Labour Party hosted business leaders for a day of hobnobbing at the Oval cricket ground in London. A representative from Skanska, a construction company, challenged Jonathan Reynolds, the party’s shadow business secretary. Problems with big infrastructure projects had dented Britain’s attractiveness, she said. What could she tell her board in Sweden to make them re-evaluate? Mr Reynolds’s reply: he would go to Stockholm himself to make the pitch.
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