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    • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
      CBI pushing Labour to soften workers’ rights pledges, says new president

      Rupert Soames says UK needs to avoid ‘European model’ of employment law and resist excessive regulation

      Sir Rupert Soames
    • Monday, 5 February, 2024
      CBI settles legal action brought by former head Tony Danker

      Size of settlement undisclosed as UK business lobby group says ex-chief ‘not associated’ with historical allegations

      Tony Danker
    • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
      UK business
      PwC UK chair backs ‘loud restart’ of CBI after scandal

      Kevin Ellis expects other big business leaders to back lobby group after alternative voice fails to materialise

      Kevin Ellis, PwC’s UK chair
    • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
      City veteran Rupert Soames to head scandal-hit CBI

      Appointment comes as UK business lobby group tries to recover from sexual misconduct scandal

      Rupert Soames
    • Saturday, 18 November, 2023
      Interview
      Misconduct scandal left CBI facing disproportionate scrutiny, says boss

      Rain Newton-Smith says business lobby group’s finances are stable after redundancy round and cash crunch

    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      CBI secures short-term funding to plug financial shortfall

      Crisis-hit UK business lobby group prepares to attend next week’s Conservative party conference

      Rain Newton-Smith, the CBI’s new director-general
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      CBI delays annual meeting as it races to secure £3mn funding

      Crisis-hit business lobby group looks to contributions from members and bank loans

    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      CBI pension scheme holds up merger with Make UK

      Manufacturers’ lobby group does not want to inherit retirement scheme

      The CBI HQ
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      CBI in merger talks with Make UK

      ‘Fairly advanced’ discussions underline financial challenges facing British business lobbying group after sexual misconduct scandal

      Montage of CBI logo over London skyline
    • Saturday, 19 August, 2023
      Companies seek to spin off diversity campaign from crisis-hit CBI

      Move aims to insulate Change the Race Ratio from lobby group’s struggle for survival

    • Sunday, 30 July, 2023
      CBI to resume external events after sexual misconduct scandal

      Business lobby group to take step following promise to overhaul its governance and culture

    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      CBI boss attends first event with minister since misconduct scandal

      Presence of Rain Newton-Smith at roundtable chaired by Andrew Griffith seen as ‘some normalisation’ of relations

      Rain Newton-Smith
    • Monday, 19 June, 2023
      Other big UK business lobby groups refuse to attend meetings with CBI

      Exile from ‘B5’ ministerial contact body complicates organisation’s attempts to recover from misconduct scandal

      Photographers and delegates look towards the stage at the gathering
    • Saturday, 17 June, 2023
      Labour lifts its boycott of crisis-hit CBI

      Contact resumes between lobby group and UK’s main opposition party but no sign of accord with governing Conservatives

    • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
      Fewer than one-third of CBI members backed overhaul

      Director-general defends role of business lobby group as she tells MPs it has 1,200 members

      Rain Newton-Smith
    • Monday, 12 June, 2023
      Helen Thomas
      The CBI may need to break up to survive

      A ‘good lobby/bad lobby’ proposal shows the challenges facing the group as it attempts to rebuild

    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
      CBI grapples with twin threats to its long-term survival

      Crisis-hit business group must convince ministers to re-engage, while halting a slide in its membership

      Montage of CBI logo, new director-general Rain Newton-Smith and the Houses of Parliament
    • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
      CBI wins vote of confidence after claims of misconduct

      Business lobby group fails to secure Sunak pledge for immediate re-engagement

      CBI conference delegates
    • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Labour’s green revolution plan may stretch its economic promises

      Also in this newsletter, the government seemingly hangs back during CBI’s hour of need

      Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves in Westminster
    • Monday, 5 June, 2023
      CBI struggles to secure big public backing for its revamp

      Business lobby group faces a make-or-break vote of confidence on Tuesday

      The annual CBI conference in London in 2018
    • Monday, 5 June, 2023
      Brian McBride
      CBI president: the outcome of vote on our future is not a given

      Support for the plan is vital if we are to fix our culture and deliver for the business community

      Silhouetted people walk in front of a floor-to-ceiling glass window with Canary Wharf towers in the background
    • Sunday, 4 June, 2023
      UK economy
      British Chambers of Commerce creates business council to rival troubled CBI

      BP and Heathrow among those to enlist in venture to provide new voice for UK’s most prominent companies

    • Sunday, 4 June, 2023
      Siemens and Microsoft give last-minute backing to CBI

      German conglomerate coordinating letter of support for crisis-hit UK lobby group ahead of vote of confidence on Tuesday

    • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
      Scandal-hit CBI to slash workforce as member exodus hits income

      Cut of one-third at UK business lobby group will form part of wider cost-cutting measures

    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
      News in-depth
      Critics underwhelmed by CBI’s ‘programme of change’

      Businesses and ministers show little solidarity with lobby group after it publishes reform plans ahead of EGM

      CBI president Brian McBride and CBI director-general Rain Newton-Smith
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