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UK: What Being ‘Pro-business and ‘Pro-worker’ Means

“ Transport Secretary Louise Haigh said this week that she had boycotted P&O Ferries in recent years and would encourage others to do so, after the firm sacked hundreds of workers in 2022 and replaced them with lower-paid agency staff.” "[It] shows that Labour cabinet ministers have never been in business, don’t understand business and don’t know how to talk to business. They just haven’t got a clue,"  Conservative shadow business secretary Kevin Hollinrake said . It means capital accumulation through cheap labour and exploitation. It means ‘our values’ and ‘free market democracy’.