Charlie Mullins is the archetypal entrepreneur having started Pimlico Plumbers from scratch and building it into a multi-million pound enterprise. Always opinionated and often controversial, Charlie’s common sense attitude has earned him a reputation as one of the UK's most outspoken entrepreneurs.
We cannot allow the rear view mirror economics that has put the UK into a double dip recession should not sculpt how businesses run their operations.
I signed the letter to the Daily Telegraph quite simply because the 50p tax rate is a bad tax that’s bad for business and bad for…
So the TUC has carried out a survey that has apparently found that two billion hours of overtime was carried out by British workers last year.…
The Government has to look seriously at the knock-on effects of the planned 3p rise in fuel duty. Of course, they have to find ways to…
The most effective way to boost the growth of your business is to not wait for the business to come to you before taking on new…
I have praise for the Prime Minister’s ambition to rebuild the UK economy from the ground-up. Cameron's speech at the Conservative Party Conference set out a…
This morning it seemed pretty much impossible to escape from sound bites of Ed Balls trying to up his stock. It was hard to see what…
I’m sure I am not a lone voice in the business community who thinks the 2019 deadline set in the Vickers Report gives the banks plenty…
When the great false economist, and rewriter of history, Alistair Darling, brought in the 50p in the pound income tax rate I promised to leave the…
“I totally agree with the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson that the time is right to scrap the 50p higher rate of tax.
If this country is to break the cycle of benefits and unemployment then the Government needs to act more like a private sector employer than a…
This £2.5 billion Business Growth Fund is ‘Fool’s Gold’ and I warn every small and medium-sized business owner to steer well clear of the fund!
I applaud the choice of Ed Balls as Shadow Chancellor. Ed Miliband should be commended for his unselfish decision to promote the unelectable and therefore ensure…
Since the coalition announced the need for a VAT rise I’ve been telling anyone who’ll listen that it’s the right move. However, I think the rise…
I really cannot keep quiet over Lord Alan Sugar’s recent comments that the Liberal Democrats under Nick Clegg are like ‘Leyton Orient suddenly being planted in…