With just 10 days until we go to the polls, we’re now firmly at the business end of this election campaign.

I’m not saying there won’t be any final twists or turns or surprises, but we do now know where the main parties stand – or at least how much they’re willing to commit to – on the big business issues.

So, what do the various manifestos tell us?

Well, everyone recognises that the economy is a central issue, if not the central issue (rhetorically at least). There is pretty much universal recognition of the huge cost pressures on business, the need for better regulation and the skills shortages which hold business back.

SNP and labour manifestos fall short on apprenticeship needs

There also seems to be a general dissatisfaction with how the enterprise agencies and wider network is performing, if no real consensus on what to do about it. There is also, as you would expect, a lot of talk focusing on high-growth scaleups, priority sectors, clusters and the like (which, to be honest, I thought current enterprise policy already does, but anyway).

But, when you get into the weeds of it, most of the parties seem to have their eye on some sort of agency re-organisation, merger, scrapping, or........

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