It wasn’t a grab for power, or even a declaration that the CBI was incapable of being reinvented. Instead, Martha Lane Fox, one-time co-founder of Lastminute.com, merely reminded the world that other business organisations exist – such as the one she heads.
“Speaking as the president of the British Chambers of Commerce, there are phenomenally strong business networks that can do the job of working together and representing themselves into government,” she said on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this week.
