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UK's Swissed Opportunity
Published under My Opinion Monday 20 July, 2009
Lord Digby Jones, speaking at a corporate event in Guernsey recently, referred, with considerable alarm, to the decision of McDonalds to move their European HQ from the UK to Switzerland.
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Selfish protectionism is not the way forward
Published under My Opinion Tuesday 14 July, 2009
Speaking at a dinner in Birmingham in aid of Sense International helping deaf and blind children in Africa, Lord Digby Jones warned against leaders of the developed world succumbing to the pressure from vested interests and putting up protectionist barriers to free trade.
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Brave new thoughts
Published under My Opinion Monday 29 June, 2009
Massive borrowing by the government may well have helped sort the banking crisis but I wonder if the penny has dropped in some parts of the labour party that borrowing is merely deferred taxation. It has to be repaid by huge hikes in taxes (rendering the country an unattractive place in which to earn a living or take risk and create jobs and wealth) or by big savings in what those taxes are also used for…
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The Bottom Line
Published under Media Highlights Thursday 18 June, 2009
Lord Digby Jones spoke to Stephanie Flanders along with Stelios Haji-Iouannou, Chairman of Easygroup Limited and Steve Ridgway, Chief Executive of Virgin Atlantic Airways on the future of the airline industry and whether machines are taking over?
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Digby joins Grove Industries
Published under Latest News Monday 15 June, 2009
Lord Digby Jones has joined West Midlands based private conglomerate Grove Industries as a consultant to the business.
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We must avoid the growing UK public and private sector apartheid
Published under My Opinion Monday 15 June, 2009
Speaking at the sixth annual Harvey Nash-sponsored Business Breakfast Lord Digby Jones called for moral courage in the UK public sector to remedy years of inefficiency in public service delivery, and to uphold the UK’s standing as a global economic leader and vital trading partner.
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