Fabian report calls on Ed Milband to make ‘comprehensive offer’ to business leaders and dwell on positive aspects of markets
Ed Miliband has been urged by one of the left’s leading thinktanks to counter corporate hostility to Labour by softening his anti-business rhetoric and stressing the pro-enterprise parts of its economic programme.
A report by the Fabian Society calls on the opposition to publish a business charter outlining what firms could expect from a Labour government and say that it plans to work in coalition with the private sector. As part of a “big, comprehensive offer” to business, the Fabians say Labour should announce a “no surprises” approach that uses tougher regulation as a last resort.
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