How Politics Broke up with Business

Published: Sept. 29, 2019, 9 p.m.

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Why have politicians gone from cosying up to businesses, to turning a deaf ear to their concerns? Jeremy Schwartz \\u2013 a CEO himself \\u2013 finds that the love affair was starting to become toxic long before Brexit, and asks whether it\\u2019s really such a bad thing if governments no longer care what business leaders think.

Contributors include:\\nAndrea Leadsom \\u2013 Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy\\nFrances O\\u2019Grady \\u2013 General Secretary, TUC\\nIain Anderson - Executive Chairman, Cicero\\nGiles Wilkes \\u2013 Former Special Adviser to the Prime Minister\\nHelen Dickinson \\u2013 Chief Executive, British Retail Consortium\\nAndy Street \\u2013 Mayor of the West Midlands, former CEO of John Lewis Partnership\\nJoe Owen \\u2013 Institute for Government\\nPaul Walsh \\u2013 Chairman, Compass Group

Presenter: Jeremy Schwartz\\nProducer: Beth Sagar-Fenton

Picture: Getty

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