Labour's efforts to slash red tape in a bid to boost growth will fail if they do not put business at their heart, the CBI ...

Rupert Soames said the Employment Rights Bill would make companies less willing to hire those with “spotty CVs and [those on] benefits”. The CBI chief told Paul Nowak, general secretary of the ...

Chair of the CBI since February 2024, Rupert Soames OBE is one of the UK’s most experienced public-company CEO’s, having served 11 years as CEO of Aggreko, followed by 9 years as CEO of Serco. He ...

The government’s Employment Rights Bill was robustly debated by CBI chair Rupert Soames and TUC general secretary Paul Nowak at yesterday’s Acas annual conference. In a session chaired by Acas’s chief ...