Andrew Bridgen is the candidate for NW Leics, founding chairman and managing director of AB Produce PLC, and a consultee to the Bank of England. Speaking from his experience he urges you to vote for business derregulation on Stand Up, Speak Up.
If John Redwood's recommendations for reducing the regulatory burden on British business are adopted as Conservative policy and enacted in Government, we could expect to hear a collective sigh of relief from the business community. Many politicians have talked about reducing regulation and cutting red tape, and here for the first time we have well thought out, researched measures to actually deliver it. Over the last ten years of this Labour Government, the increase of the regulatory burden has seen the UK falling from 4th to 13th in world competitiveness rankings.
This continued decline is unsustainable. As anyone who runs their own business would be able to tell you, they’re having to spend ever increasing amounts of their time ensuring that their business complies with all the latest rules and regulations emanating from an ever increasing number of various Government agencies and quangos both at home and from Europe. This is an unwelcome diversion from working and developing their business. Time always costs money in the business world.
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