Businesses no longer want the government to get out of the way Iain Anderson A new partnership will mean government and business can co-create the opportunities for long-term investment to flow back into the UK, says Iain Anderson
Keir Starmer is the right person to rebuild government’s vital relationship with business UK Politics By focusing on “growth, growth, growth”, Keir Starmer will be able to mobilise the business community behind him to make his goal a reality.
DEBATE: Is Nicola Sturgeon overplaying her hand by demanding a Scottish independence referendum next year? Is Nicola Sturgeon overplaying her hand by demanding a Scottish independence referendum next year? Iain Anderson, executive chairman at Cicero Group, says YES. Sick and tired of being sick and tired of endless elections and referendums? I think most of us are. So when I heard Scotland’s first minister say this weekend that the SNP [...]
Watch out, Tories – Labour has got its anti-capitalist mojo back September 28, 2018 I started my week in Liverpool. It’s a great city. It’s got soul. It’s got a clear identity. And it’s clearly on the up. In the past week, all those words could apply to the main opposition party that just might be capturing the zeitgeist of middle Britain. Rubbing alongside those delegates partying by [...]
A second Scottish independence vote was inevitable – and it will be tougher to win than the first March 13, 2017 Since the UK as a whole voted to leave the EU, it has been a question of “when” rather than “if” we would see a second Scottish independence referendum. Those who declared that a second poll was not inevitable have not been listening to politics north of the border for years. The EU referendum result [...]
Forget the noise about ‘Leavers’ and ‘Remainiacs’: There are reasons for hope as EU negotiations draw near February 23, 2017 In just just a few days the UK will embark on one of the longest multilateral negotiations in its history as the Prime Minister invokes Article 50 and the process of withdrawal from the EU begins in earnest. To read the headlines or remain glued to Twitter (an increasingly bad idea for my blood pressure), [...]
As the UK ambassador to the EU warns that a Brexit agreement could take a decade to reach, do we need a transitional deal? December 16, 2016 Iain Anderson, co-founder and executive chairman at Cicero Group, says Yes. When was the last time you jumped off a cliff? Never. Sounds like a very sound plan to me. As the UK looks to form new trading relationships with the EU and globally, it is vital that we don’t walk any economic plank. And [...]
Business should embrace the government’s radical corporate governance proposals to strike a better relationship with the public November 29, 2016 What is it about luxury yachts that seems to get policy-makers so worked up? The UK’s Corporate Governance Code will be 25 years old next year and it’s worth reflecting on why it came into existence. It was the collapse of Robert Maxwell’s business empire that led to the first Cadbury Code, which has evolved [...]
With Italians set to vote no in a key political reform referendum, should we now expect “Italeave”? November 24, 2016 Tim Worstall, senior fellow at the Adam Smith Institute, and author of Chasing Rainbows: Economic Myths, Environmental Facts, says Yes. Failure by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to win the Italian constitutional referendum should indeed lead to Italy’s exit from the EU. Renzi has said that he will resign if he loses, which will almost certainly [...]
Is a hard Brexit looking increasingly likely? September 12, 2016 Alex Deane, common councilman in the City of London Corporation and managing director at FTI Consulting, says Yes. Those obsessing about “the deal” we get with the European Union miss some basic truths. People and companies trade with one another, not nations. We are highly successful in economic relationships entirely without a trade deal: we have no [...]
