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Bill Esterson MP Articles

Helping SMEs now

10.8 million people work in businesses which employ fewer than 50 people. A further three million are employed by medium-sized enterprises employing between 50 and 250 people. Yet SMEs account for less than half the value of contracts with local government. With...

Cut the VAT

In the week that a hundred leading economists have made an impassioned call for the government to step back from the brink of a new economic crisis and back a Plan B to save existing jobs and create new ones, a campaign backed by dozens of business organisations has a...

A tale of two councils

Bill Esterson represented Kent as a councillor and now Lancashire as an MP. What made the difference between Labour success in the latter and slow progress in the former last week?

Understanding how to help small business

The appointment of Lord Young as a small business czar appears, on the face of it, to show government support for small business and is an attempt to suggest that the coalition are the party of small business. The reality may be rather different.

Cut the VAT

Cut the VAT

In the week that a hundred leading economists have made an impassioned call for the government to step back from the...

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