Do UK politicians suffer from a lack of business experience?

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Part of the problem, and this is not
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exclusive to the Labour Party, but there
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is not a single member of the Labour
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cabinet that has ever run a business.
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Now, I'm not saying you have to have
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that experience. I mean, you don't have
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to be a doctor to run the health
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service, for instance. But I think if
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you don't understand the way that
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business works, or a basic understanding
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of it, then I don't think you kind of
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understand some of the implications of
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your policies. Anybody with half an
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economic brain, I got grade A economics
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A level, so I don't pretend to be a
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great economist, but even I understand
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that if you put more on employers'
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national insurance, employers are going
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to shed jobs. And if as the Labour Party
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you say employment is your number one
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priority, it just doesn't figure. And of
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course, every single Labour government
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has always left unemployment higher than
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when it started, which is an amazing
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statistic.

Do UK politicians suffer from a lack of business experience?

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