The Tories want to liberate British businesses and Reform wants to create “a stable pro-enterprise environment”. Both froth a lot about “too much red tape” disincentivising wealth creators. That should make us very afraid for what they plan to do, once more, to this country.

On Monday, the new Employment Rights Act came into force, extending workers’ rights, including sick pay for those earning less than £125 per week. Until now they got nothing. Most low-paid workers are female, many lone mums. Under the Tories, if they got sick, they fell deeper into poverty. Keir Starmer and his Cabinet deserve credit for courageously pushing through laws that reflect Labour values. Now sit back and witness the hysteria about Labour betraying business.

Entrepreneurs, investors and profiteers loathe measures to make them behave responsibly or to make society fairer. They think of themselves as Brahmins in Britain’s caste system. The Dalits are exploited workers and workless benefits claimants. Of course the elite business class and its political allies detest any oversight of their own activities.

They say for the UK to be the power it once was, it must become more like the hideously Darwinian USA. They have their perfect champions in our hard-right and right-wing parties.

Kemi Badenoch is one of those fanatical believers. In last weekend’s Sunday Times, she wrote:........

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