Conservatives raise £1.16m in final full week of election campaigning
Major investor in Wonga, a banker and two hedge fund managers head list of Conservative donors, beating Labour’s fundraising by just over £69,000
February 2013
Heather Stewart's business comment
Liz Truss childcare plan will lead to tears long before bedtime
Heather Stewart
Heather Stewart: Not only will cutting red tape in childcare provision not work, it is far too important to be left to market forces
October 2012
Humane conditions for free-range workers
Osborne's 'shares for rights' scheme full of holes, say unions
September 2012
Employment law reforms are licence to treat people badly - and still pay less
Anya Palmer
Anya Palmer: Government plans to cap unfair dismissal compensation will not make it easier to fire employees. It'll just make it cheaper
Vince Cable should stop signing away workers' rights by the back door
Ian Murray
Ian Murray: Cable wrote off the Beecroft report, but now he's consulting to introduce measures like fire-at-will for micro-businesses
Unthinkable? Leaving employment rights alone
Vince Cable's labour reforms are 'slap in the face' for workers, says TUC
Unfair dismissal compensation cap to be cut to encourage hiring of new staff
August 2012
Britannia Unchained: the rise of the new Tory right
A group of Conservative MPs are trying to seize the political agenda with some of the most rightwing ideas the party has seen in decades – and many are taking them seriously
May 2012
Brain food
Give these overpaid CEOs asbos (that's Antisocial Business Orders)
Simon Hoggart's sketch
Where's Vince? Cable leaves business questions to sacrificial Lamb
Simon Hoggart
Don't believe the spin: workers will lose out, thanks to Beecroft
Anya Palmer
Politics Weekly UK
Politics Weekly podcast: Ed Miliband and an EU referendum
Beecroft proposals: how Tory donor's radical blueprint split the government
Cable dismisses Beecroft proposals for outsourced public sector workers
David Cameron rebuffs questions over Beecroft report – video
Vince Cable accused of being a socialist by Tory donor
Vince Cable signals demise of Tory plan to make sacking workers easier
Beecroft plan will boost discrimination, but not productivity
