small business Articles

In my 17 years of my life so far, I have already began to pick out society’s flaws by looking at what we appreciate and what we do not. Small Business Saturday, which I heard about on the radio, to me is an event that could demonstrate the difficulties that small...

A party that was founded to challenge the established order should be the natural party of small businesses and the self-employed. Small businesses provide the intellectual and market challenge that creates value and innovation for consumers, and the majority of the...

Self-employment is growing rapidly. Since the turn of the century there has been a 30 per cent increase in the number of people working for themselves, with an extra 100,000 more people choosing to start up in business this year alone. The result is that one in seven...

Over the past fortnight I have spoken to a number of people involved in small and medium sized businesses in London and at a recent series of Progress regional small business roundtable meetings with business people and parliamentarians such as Liam Byrne and Seema...