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David Bond

Business ‘crying out for leadership’, warns former CBI boss as political turmoil continues

Lord Bilimoria (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

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Businesses are crying out for leadership, the former boss of the CBI has warned, as he called on new Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi to urgently slash taxes.

With Boris Johnson fighting to hold on to office, Lord Karan Bilimoria, founder of the beer brand Cobra and ex-President of the Confederation of British Industry, told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme the world was looking at the UK and wondering what the country was doing.

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