Labour & small business Articles

Like most progressive people I am sympathetic to the public service workers who were striking over their pensions. Indeed as someone working in the private sector if I had such pension security and certainty I would certainly strike to protect it.

As the dust settles on the recent budget, questions are being asked as to why measures to support small business have not happened. For years, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats had been sympathetic to calls for the end of IR35 and private assurances given to those ‘in the know’ meant its days were numbered.

It was supposed to be a budget that would deliver growth and lead to prosperity building on the foundations of the earlier ‘tough, necessary’ decisions taken by George Osborne in his first budget. The cuts, we were told, were difficult and necessary but would yield results.