Bosses give their verdict on the "Brown era"

An interesting article in The Observer this Sunday collates the views of various business heavyweights on the successfulness (or otherwise) of the Chancellor's past 9 years in power.

As one would expect, the article contains a wide range of opinion...

The director of the CBI, Digby Jones says: "...taxes have gone up, regulation has gone up, the transport system has not improved, and neither has the skills base."

Stephen Alambritis, Federation of Small Businesses says: "...the nine years of Brown's budgets have made the tax system very complicated; there have been a lot of changes of mind."

Graeme Leach, chief economist of the IoD says: "Business likes stability, and low inflation; we've had both over the past nine years. The question is, to what extent was Brown responsible for that? Inflation was already low before Brown came into office."

For the article in full, visit The Observer.