17 June 2025, 17:26

By Charlie Rubin

This is a great country, built on the backs of small businesses. Proudly, we used to be called a nation of shopkeepers.

The government talks endlessly about “Industrial Strategy” and “Growth & Skills Agendas” but these are just exhausted slogans and Whitehall buzzwords masking complete and utter failure to deliver for the British people.

Timber is up nearly 300% since the pandemic. A 5L tin of Dulux cost me £60 last week. Prices are rising because of state interference, not in spite of it.

If the results aren’t working, maybe it’s time government stopped pretending it knows better than the people actually building the economy?

This week’s CBI economic forecast only confirms what many of us in business already feel: the UK economy is........

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