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July 16, 2012 2:29 pm

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The Labour Party will hold its first “annual business reception” tomorrow evening,  as it seeks to reach out to Labour supporters in the business community.

The event follows calls (including last year from many of the writers of the Labour’s Business pamphlet) for the party to engage more closely with business, and increasing calls from within the party to reach out to businesses – particularly SMEs – in the wake of Ed Miliband’s “Predators and Producers” conference speech last year. Speaking to LabourList earlier today a party source told us that the message being sent was that “we are a resolutely pro-business party”.

So far 500 people have registered to attend the event.

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  • http://twitter.com/shibleylondon Shibs

    Interesting. 

    Ed’s ‘responsible capitalism’ is firmly footed in the leading corporate thinking at Harvard, as I explained on my blog yesterday,

    http://shibleyrahman.com/dr-shibley-rahman-viewpoint/wonks-take-note-prof-porter-head-at-harvard-and-ed-miliband-are-talking-about-the-same-thing

    CSR was a large component of my MBA which was awarded earlier this year.

    Best wishes to Labour and Labour List, as usual.

  • http://www.stuartbruce.biz/ Stuart Bruce

    Wish I could go, but tomorrow my birthday celebrations take precedent!

    • John Dore

      I’d like to go too but can’t. I’ve read the Lab bus site a couple of times. Labour needs to be the conduit between good employee relations and productivity.

  • JoeDM

    Sounds very New Labour to me.    The sort of thing Mandy and Blair would be at home at.

     

    • John Dore

      Are you for real? If Labour isn’t talking the language of business it is dead in the water.

    • John Dore

      The public in general are stupid died in the wool old Labourites clamouring for some utopian public sector deliverance. They live in the real world where most jobs are small business’s, corporations AND the public sector.

      • John Dore

        insert not between are and stupid.

    • http://twitter.com/mistyblulabour dave stone

      No mate, if it was New Labour they’d only focus on the City of London and Murdoch-like mega-corporations. What we need is something much broader, bringing in Chambers of Commerce and Federation of Small Businesses and similar – those with hands-on, nitty gritty experience who won’t be offering New Labour entitlement junkies non-executive directorships in exchange for favours.

      Chuka Umunna has the right idea with his vision of a UK version of Germany’s mittelstand:

      http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/24/business/german-economy-mittelstand/index.html

  • http://twitter.com/rob_marchant Rob Marchant

    Great!

  • John Slinger

    Looks good. Just the kind of thing the party needs to be doing. 

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