CBI chief Sir Digby Jones has been drafted in as trade promotion minister. He is to be given a peerage and will take the Labour whip in the House of Lords, voting with the party's peers.
But his office stressed he will not be joining the Labour Party.
Some of us are able to remember when Labour Governments were more inclined to provide jobs for trades union heid-yins. For example, Frank Cousins ended up as the Minister for Technology in the first Wilson government. It was the Tories who favoured business nabobs, from John Davies in the Heath government to Lord Young who famously brought Mrs Thatcher solutions rather than problems. But none of them, either from business or from the trades unions, was ever a great success.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat history's mistakes. None of our present politicians seems to have any sense of history.
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