It’s at times like these we need each other. I struggle to find the right words to sum up how this year has been for the UK’s millions of small business owners and self-employed. Difficult? Challenging? Uncertain? Talk about understatements. Let’s be honest, for many of us it has been frightening, devastating, and unbelievably [...]
Sitting under a parasol in a beer garden, supping a pint of craft ale, the sun shining, Dua Lipa playing on the pub’s sound system, I reflected on how much we used to take simple things like this for granted. In our businesses as well, if the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s to [...]
Election 2015: Labour and the Liberal Democrats - the political love marriage? The British government has been made up of a coalition between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats since 2010, the first coalition since WWII. Over recent years, and particularly after the expenses scandal, people have become increasingly disillusioned and disaffected with politics. It [...]
Over the next year all party leaders will be seeking to define the key issues that the election will be fought on. In light of the annual budget today, we can see that political parties economic credibility is of paramount importance when trying to determine the outcome of the next general election. David Cameron [...]
