Is big business about to take the reins of how the UK ends up leaving the EU?
The Prime Minister, Theresa May, is setting up five new business councils to advise the government on how to create the best UK business environment after we leave the EU.
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The councils will meet three times a year, two of which will be with the PM and one with a senior cabinet minister, reports the BBC. Each group will have about ten people on it who represent core UK economic sectors and key business groups.
And the councils have been asked by Mrs May to “advise us on the opportunities and challenges facing business as we shape the UK for the future.”
The big names the BBC quotes are: “Tesco boss Dave Lewis, ITV chief Carolyn McCall, entrepreneur James Timpson, and CBI head Carolyn Fairbairn”.
And the companies and organisations involved: “BT, BAE, Rolls-Royce, Prudential, Santander, Tesco, Timpson, ITV and GSK, together with representatives from the CBI, Institute of Directors, EEF, British Chambers of Commerce and the Federation of Small Business”.
Now, it all sounds just fine and dandy - but what will be driving the agenda? The need for big business to stay as close as possible to the EU for their own immediate bottom line and share-holder needs? Or the political imperative of leaving the EU completely?
Now, don’t get me wrong - I welcome that business is involved. But with such a fundamental question as the true sovereignty and independence of the UK at stake and how much pressure a lot of big business has been placing on everyone to try and reverse Brexit through a second EU referendum, you will have to forgive me for being a trifle suspicious.
These new business councils a..
