The IoD’s Director General asks why politicians who are commercially successful in business are criticised Health secretary Jeremy Hunt made headlines in November when Hotcourses – the language-teaching business he set up and worked in long before entering politics – was sold to a private-equity firm. His proceeds of £17m make him the richest member of cabinet. Britain’s tabloids and the government’s critics seethed. Opposition MPs talked of “a cabinet of millionaires having no experience or empathy with the daily struggles of ordinary families”. Unions fulminated about “the man who has been let loose to slash the heart out of … Read More »
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