Martin Vander Weyer Martin Vander Weyer

Armageddon is coming: how real-life employers are preparing for life under Corbyn

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issue 18 November 2017

Numerous readers told me they liked my recent tale — offered as an antidote to ‘media sniping at corporate capitalism’ — about the temporary school built by Porta-kabin after the Grenfell Tower fire. I’m on the lookout for other business stories that celebrate the positive, and I had it in mind to write about an entrepreneur I’ve known throughout his career who has built an international brand that pleases customers, creates skilled jobs and has carried him through tough times to a fortune. But when we spoke, our conversation took an unexpected turn. Did I realise, he asked, how he and his cohort are beginning to think in relation to the risk of an incoming Corbyn-McDonnell government?

He then sent me a list of topics currently under discussion in his office, adding: ‘I hasten to add no decisions have been taken, but I gather we’re not alone.’ Here are some of them: ‘Move personal as well as corporate assets overseas.

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