Hague told UK firms are trying to boost jobs
WILLIAM Hague was told last night that businesses are doing all they can to grow the economy – and do not need the government to “crack the whip”.
Sir Roger Carr, president of the CBI, told guests at the organisation’s annual dinner that “there are no whinging businessmen here” only “engaged and positive people advocating a more constructive approach to solving the nation’s greatest challenge – growth”.
The foreign secretary was criticised this week for saying firms should stop “complaining” and that “There’s only one growth strategy: work hard”.
But Carr said businesses were doing their best to grow the economy, even though they needed the government to implement more business-friendly policies.
Outlining several “hard truths”, he said there is a need to fight the “sense of entitlement at all levels” and fix an education system that “is failing young people and failing the country as a whole”.
“We have to earn our way in the world, be smart enough to know what we are good at, brave enough to reach out to new markets, bright enough to develop new products, and driven enough to beat the competition,” he added.