Business leaders are hard to impress this election. In the Herald’s annual “Mood of the Boardroom” survey, they give poor or middling marks to almost the whole political class, including the two former business executives running the Government’s economic policy, and several ratings are among the worst in the survey’s records. Competence and delivery obviously count, but the comments also show some respondents marking politicians down for taking on business interests.
This year’s survey, released on Thursday, of 150 business leaders (130 chief executives, 12 company chairs and the heads of eight business organisations) ran from
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