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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Julia Kollewe

CBI needs an outsider to lead it through crisis, says former director

The 2018 CBI annual conference
The 2018 CBI annual conference. The organisation, founded in 1965, represents 190,000 businesses. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

The Confederation of British Industry needs an experienced outsider to lead it through its crisis, according to a former director, after the Guardian’s reports of complaints against senior figures over alleged sexual misconduct.

Andrew Sentance, a former member of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee who started his career as director of economic affairs at the business lobby group in the mid-1980s, said he was “very disappointed” by the scandal, which has left the CBI battling for its future.

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