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Confederation of British Industry

  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Business welcomes UK ministers’ commitment to nurturing economic growth

    Executives applaud the government’s upbeat tone at Labour’s conference, but want to see more policy detail

    Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks at the Labour party conference business day event
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    Ireland moves closer to relaxing ETF transparency rules, lawyers say

    Change could accelerate adoption of active ETF strategies

    Man walks past Central Bank of Ireland sign
  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
    CBI admits to using non-disclosure agreements to silence staff

    Settlements reached as UK business group tried to recover after allegations of wrongdoing

  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    CBI pushing Labour to soften workers’ rights pledges, says new president

    Rupert Soames says UK needs to avoid ‘European model’ of employment law and resist excessive regulation

    Sir Rupert Soames
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    CBI settles legal action brought by former head Tony Danker

    Size of settlement undisclosed as UK business lobby group says ex-chief ‘not associated’ with historical allegations

    Tony Danker
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    UK business
    PwC UK chair backs ‘loud restart’ of CBI after scandal

    Kevin Ellis expects other big business leaders to back lobby group after alternative voice fails to materialise

    Kevin Ellis, PwC’s UK chair
  • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
    City veteran Rupert Soames to head scandal-hit CBI

    Appointment comes as UK business lobby group tries to recover from sexual misconduct scandal

    Rupert Soames
  • Saturday, 18 November, 2023
    Interview
    Misconduct scandal left CBI facing disproportionate scrutiny, says boss

    Rain Newton-Smith says business lobby group’s finances are stable after redundancy round and cash crunch

  • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
    CBI secures short-term funding to plug financial shortfall

    Crisis-hit UK business lobby group prepares to attend next week’s Conservative party conference

    Rain Newton-Smith, the CBI’s new director-general
  • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
    CBI delays annual meeting as it races to secure £3mn funding

    Crisis-hit business lobby group looks to contributions from members and bank loans

  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    CBI pension scheme holds up merger with Make UK

    Manufacturers’ lobby group does not want to inherit retirement scheme

    The CBI HQ
  • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
    CBI in merger talks with Make UK

    ‘Fairly advanced’ discussions underline financial challenges facing British business lobbying group after sexual misconduct scandal

    Montage of CBI logo over London skyline
  • Saturday, 19 August, 2023
    Companies seek to spin off diversity campaign from crisis-hit CBI

    Move aims to insulate Change the Race Ratio from lobby group’s struggle for survival

  • Sunday, 30 July, 2023
    CBI to resume external events after sexual misconduct scandal

    Business lobby group to take step following promise to overhaul its governance and culture

  • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
    CBI boss attends first event with minister since misconduct scandal

    Presence of Rain Newton-Smith at roundtable chaired by Andrew Griffith seen as ‘some normalisation’ of relations

    Rain Newton-Smith
  • Monday, 19 June, 2023
    Other big UK business lobby groups refuse to attend meetings with CBI

    Exile from ‘B5’ ministerial contact body complicates organisation’s attempts to recover from misconduct scandal

    Photographers and delegates look towards the stage at the gathering
  • Saturday, 17 June, 2023
    Labour lifts its boycott of crisis-hit CBI

    Contact resumes between lobby group and UK’s main opposition party but no sign of accord with governing Conservatives

  • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
    Fewer than one-third of CBI members backed overhaul

    Director-general defends role of business lobby group as she tells MPs it has 1,200 members

    Rain Newton-Smith
  • Monday, 12 June, 2023
    Helen Thomas
    The CBI may need to break up to survive

    A ‘good lobby/bad lobby’ proposal shows the challenges facing the group as it attempts to rebuild

  • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
    CBI grapples with twin threats to its long-term survival

    Crisis-hit business group must convince ministers to re-engage, while halting a slide in its membership

    Montage of CBI logo, new director-general Rain Newton-Smith and the Houses of Parliament
  • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
    CBI wins vote of confidence after claims of misconduct

    Business lobby group fails to secure Sunak pledge for immediate re-engagement

    CBI conference delegates
  • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
    Inside Politics
    Labour’s green revolution plan may stretch its economic promises

    Also in this newsletter, the government seemingly hangs back during CBI’s hour of need

    Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves in Westminster
  • Monday, 5 June, 2023
    CBI struggles to secure big public backing for its revamp

    Business lobby group faces a make-or-break vote of confidence on Tuesday

    The annual CBI conference in London in 2018
  • Monday, 5 June, 2023
    Brian McBride
    CBI president: the outcome of vote on our future is not a given

    Support for the plan is vital if we are to fix our culture and deliver for the business community

    Silhouetted people walk in front of a floor-to-ceiling glass window with Canary Wharf towers in the background
  • Sunday, 4 June, 2023
    UK economy
    British Chambers of Commerce creates business council to rival troubled CBI

    BP and Heathrow among those to enlist in venture to provide new voice for UK’s most prominent companies

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