Progress · 14 November 2017

In a piece for Progress, I warned that small and medium-sized businesses were facing a difficult mix of rising prices, slowing investment and Brexit uncertainty, with the threat of yet another rise in business rates on top.

Drawing on the concerns of the Federation of Small Businesses and London’s mayor, I argued that the rates system was failing independent and family firms and putting high streets at risk.

I noted that the government had started borrowing Labour’s ideas in other areas, and asked whether business rates reform would be next.

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