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The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK

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Coca-Cola becomes majority owner of Innocent smoothies

9 April 2010 News Business Matters

Coca-Cola has taken a majority stake in the British fruit smoothie maker Innocent, but Innocent’s three founders said that they would keep running the firm.

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Green Party learn to canvas the Obama way using email tactics

9 April 201018 April 2018 News Business Matters

Prepare Spam filters as voters are to be bombarded with personalised emails urging them to back the Green Party as part of a drive to help the party win its first seat in Parliament.

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Labour candidate sacked over Twitter rants

9 April 201027 May 2017 News Business Matters

A Labour election candidate has been sacked after posting a string of highly offensive comments about voters, politicians and celebrities on his Twitter account.

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VAT increase looks a done deal, despite all the Government’s denials

8 April 201018 April 2018 News Business Matters

It isn’t normal to hear a major retailer arguing for a rise in the rate of VAT, but that is precisely what Sir Stuart Rose, chairman of Marks & Spencer, did on the BBC radio “Today” programme on the first full day of the election

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Brown ‘rattled’ by business leaders NI backlash

8 April 201027 May 2017 News Business Matters

As more business leaders create a backlash over Government plans to raise National Insurance Gordon Brown, and the Labour party, has looked “very rattled” in the run up to the General Election, David Cameron has claimed

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Why People Don’t Buy From You – Part 1

8 April 201020 February 2012 Advice, Columns, News Andy Preston

Andy Preston explains why people don’t buy from you …..and what you can change right now to get their business in the future……..

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The race to No.10 – The Election Timeline

6 April 201027 May 2017 News Business Matters

So what happens when over the next month until the nation goes to the polls on May 6th?

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Clegg: It is no longer a two horse race

6 April 201027 May 2017 News Business Matters

Speaking to workers at the Lib Dems’ Cowley Street campaign headquarters, Mr Clegg said the May 6 poll would be ”a huge, huge election” which would spell the beginning of the end for Gordon Brown.

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Peter Mandelson takes full control of Labour’s election team

3 April 201027 May 2017 News Business Matters

It is understood that Lord Mandelson will be the party’s chief election strategist as well as chairing “the majority” of Labour’s news conferences following the announcement that Gordon Brown has called the General election for May 6th.

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The Tory thought process can boost business

3 April 201023 October 2021 News Business Matters

“The Big Society”, the Conservative Party told us in a paper published this week, “is our positive alternative to Labour’s failed big government approach”: it looks to tackle dependence on the state by empowering communities to address local issues and securing mass engagement in social action.

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Plaid Cymru

3 April 201019 April 2018 News Business Matters

Your source for all the latest news, comment and analysis that might affect your business from Plaid Cymru and Westminster leader Elfyn Llwyd in this year’s general election.

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Green Party

3 April 201018 April 2018 News Business Matters

Latest news about the Green Party, Green Party policies and the Green Party leader Caroline Lucas.

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UK Independence Party

3 April 201018 April 2018 News Business Matters

Your source for all the latest news, comment and analysis that might affect your business from the UK Independence Party and leader Lord Pearson in this year’s general election.

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Countdown to the Election

3 April 201025 March 2020 News Business Matters

Gordon Brown has called the General Election for May 6 and launched his campaign by calling for a ‘mandate’ to restore the trust between voters and the politicians elected to represent them.

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Labour party

2 April 20106 July 2023 News Business Matters

Your source for all the latest news, comment and analysis that might affect your business from the Labour Party and leader Gordon Brown in this year’s general election.

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