Don’t stop cash for Covid tests at work, CBI boss tells PM

Don’t stop cash for Covid tests at work next month, CBI boss Lord Bilimoria tells Prime Minister By Alex Lawson For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:16 GMT, 20 February 2021 | Updated: 22:30 GMT, 20 February 2021 One of Britain’s most powerful bosses has called on the Prime Minister to put workplace Covid-19 testing … Read more

CBI BOSS: Government must continue paying for free Covid tests for firms

Workplace testing will need to become commonplace and the Government must continue paying for free Covid kits for companies, says CBI BOSS By Karan Bilimoria For Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 22:16 GMT, 20 February 2021 | Updated: 22:16 GMT, 20 February 2021 Lord Bilimoria is president of the CBI and the founder of Cobra … Read more

Former CBI chief Dame Carolyn Fairbairn to join HSBC’s board

Former CBI chief Dame Carolyn Fairbairn lands HSBC job just a week after joining BAE By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:02 GMT, 16 February 2021 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 16 February 2021 In demand: Dame Carolyn Fairbairn is being lines up to join the board of HSBC Dame Carolyn Fairbairn is set to … Read more

Former CBI chief Dame Carolyn Fairbairn joins board of BAE 

Former CBI chief Dame Carolyn Fairbairn joins board of defence giant BAE By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 11 February 2021 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 11 February 2021 The CBI’s former boss has joined the board of BAE. Dame Carolyn Fairbairn, who was director general of the business lobby group for … Read more

Reform Britain’s outdated business rates system now, CBI tells Sunak

Reform Britain’s outdated business rates system now to help High Street survive the pandemic, Sunak told By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 18 January 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 18 January 2021 Britain’s outdated business rates system must be ripped apart and rebuilt to ensure the High Street can survive and … Read more

CBI president LORD BILIMORIA hails ‘historic’ Brexit deal

Looking ahead: Lord Bilimoria makes no bones about the awfulness of the year firms have endured Lord Bilimoria, the new president of the UK’s biggest business group, makes no bones about the awfulness of the year firms have endured.  ‘How can I not sound despairing?’ he asks, rhetorically. ‘If you can imagine what we have been … Read more

CBI lobbies for cuts in Covid social distancing

CBI lobbies for cuts in Covid social distancing to help manufacturers The CBI has floated with Government the possibility of using Test to Release This would  allow employees to work more closely together By Alex Lawson For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:16 GMT, 26 December 2020 | Updated: 22:58 GMT, 26 December 2020 Britain’s … Read more

Businesses must be handed more support, says CBI boss

Businesses facing ‘bleak midwinter’ and must be handed more support, boss of Confederation of British Industry Dame Carolyn Fairbairn warns By Ruth Sunderland And Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 1 November 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 1 November 2020 Businesses are facing a ‘bleak midwinter’ and must be handed more support, … Read more

Outgoing CBI boss tells PM to save economy from Covid

Tough at the top: Outgoing CBI boss Carolyn Fairbairn Carolyn Fairbairn, the first female director general of the CBI, is stepping down after one of the most turbulent periods in the business organisation’s 55-year history.  In her time at the top she has dealt with three prime ministers, a seismic rupture with the European Union, … Read more

CBI boss Lord Bilimoria urges against tax hikes

The new president of Britain’s most powerful business lobby group has slammed Rishi Sunak’s plans to pay down the nation’s Covid debts – and called instead for tax cuts for companies.  In a significant intervention, Lord Bilimoria today sets the Confederation of British Industry on a collision course with the Government over the Chancellor’s plans … Read more