The Capitalist: Madders’ badders, desk politics and Volkswagen’s sausage boom |
Members of the production team eat currywurst sausages in the Volkswagen AG manufacturing plant in Wolfsburg, Germany, 2020. (Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Justin Madders slips up, desks become status symbols and Volkswagen celebrates sausages sales. That and more in this week’s The Capitalist
LABOUR’S GOT BILLS TO SWAY
Labour’s Employment Bill, the anticipation of which has already seen an overwhelming number of businesses plan to cut hiring, remains far more at risk of giving workers frights than rights. Which may be why employment rights minister Justin Madders was left flailing when asked to name a single small business which supported the Bill in the Commons on Tuesday. As noticed by Guido, the best the minister could offer was the Co-op, which, with an £11.5bn annual turnover........