The parties at the bosses’ conference
On Monday 18 November the Tory, Labour, and Lib Dem leaders all spoke at the conference of the Confederation of British Industry, the main bosses’ organisation. Jo Swinson of the Lib Dems got the warmest applause. The Lib Dems, with their new ultra-neo-liberal pledge always to run a government budget surplus, are pitching to be considered the full-on party of big business. According to the Financial Times , “many admitted, sometimes grudgingly, that the Conservatives would still probably get their vote”. Boris Johnson’s policy of “taking the UK out of the EU as soon as possible... remains...