New year is the time when we reflect on the year gone by and look forward to the year ahead. For small businesses, it is no different.
2013 was the year when small business really started motoring again, after Labour’s Great Recession. But there is more to do. Because although our recovery is real, it is still fragile. As a Government we have to go on making life easier for small business.
Conservatives value small business because of the ethos they embody of hard work and reward for effort. They matter because of the jobs and prosperity they create, and the opportunity they create for people to rise and achieve their dreams. Small businesses allow people to get on in life and have a better, more secure future. And of course they are crucial to our country’s future too.
So here are my top 10 changes we’ve actually delivered in 2013, often against opposition, to support small business.
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