At the Acas 2025 conference in Westminster, Soames accused the government of failing to listen to businesses's concerns about the proposals.

With the forthcoming Industrial Strategy expected to address the challenge of regulation, the CBI is calling for the government to grasp the opportunity to reform the regulatory system to support the ...

Rupert Soames is president of the CBI (Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images) The government’s efforts to slash red tape and regulation in a bid to boost growth are doomed to ...

Rupert Soames, the outspoken CBI chief, hit the nail on the head last week when he told a union chief that businesses are often confronted with what he calls the “doctor problem”.

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 ...

the president of the CBI Rupert Soames; the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Mark Rowley to the chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor. Nick Robinson says: "Now more than ever there's a ...

The service included readings from Sir Thomas' sons Philip Dunne and Nicky Dunne and daughter Milly Soames, A eulogy was given by Sir Thomas' son-in-law Rupert Soames, who said the former Lord ...