Telegraph Blogs : Guests (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
I reported yesterday that John Hutton was on his way out of the Business Department (albeit I thought that Des Browne was just about hanging onto his job.) Mr Hutton fought hard to stay and powerful allies like Richard Lambert at the CBI were keen to keep him, I am told. What no one foresaw was the return of Peter Mandelson . B...
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
When I interviewed Nigel Farage this morning he was not a happy ukipper. he had just been bumped from Question Time because they wanted an economist on the panel. So we have just been treated to an hour of Richard Lambert of the CBI - possibly the most boring man in Britain. He has come out with so many statements of the bleedin' obvious that I have lost count. So why don't you bump Janet Street Porter...
Radio 4 - Today (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
The UK economy is facing a difficult future whether or not the bail-out bill is passed in the US. Marks and Spencer boss Sir Stuart Rose and Richard Lambert, director general of the CBI, debate the growing economic gloom.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Richard Lambert, CBI director general
Chicken Yoghurt (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
So Richard Lambert, director-general of the CBI, said the bonuses are “a very effective way of motivating employees”. In which case it’s a good job the rest of the country’s workforce manages to get motivated without a £12.6m bonus or hospitals would be full of frail old patients squealing: “Can you change my sheets dear, [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Richard Lambert, CBI director-general, tried to inject some optimism into what he admitted was "a financial drama on the scale of 1929".
The Independent (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Richard Lambert, CBI director-general
Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
I was interested to read an article in the Times Online from Richard Lambert, Director-General of the CBI, commenting that Britain needs more enterprise than just financial services and The City of London, he says "we can't all be derivatives traders or hedge fund managers" He poses the question "Are we right to be the only industrial country not to have anything in terms of industrial policy?" I am...
newsjiffy (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
David Turner reports on CBI director-general Richard Lambert's concern about the lack of children studying the Triple Science GCSE. Mr Lambert said: “The big question for me, for what could be an industrial renaissance”, is “whether our citizens are going to do more than pour the concrete.” More .
The Independent (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Business groups such as the CBI have given the Treasury a tough time this year over the taxation of multinational companies. Richard Lambert, the organisation's director-general, has repeatedly warned that more companies will choose to move their tax base elsewhere if the Government presses ahead with reforms of the way in which overseas profits are taxed. Let's hope then, that Mr Lambert will be...
Money is the way (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Richard Lambert, CBI director-general, says: 'There is a dark mood sweeping the land. O you fools, beware! The crunch will get you! Surging inflation, continuing stress in financial markets, and the owl that hoots, that screeches in the middle of the night! These are the things that weigh heavy on my mind. I have seen into the darkness. I have looked into the dark heart of man. O you employers,
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
The CBI has warned that the UK economy is deteriorating faster than it previously thought. The employer’s organisation believes “that the mood has darkened in the last two or three months,” its director general Richard Lambert warned members in a letter. Forecasters, including the CBI, had been “over-optimistic” about the economic outlook, he added. High inflation [...]
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
“..Leading employers’ organisation the CBI will this week perform a significant U-turn.. ..and warn its members that the economy is deteriorating at a faster rate than it had predicted. As recently as June, Richard Lambert, the CBI’s director-general, took a relatively optimistic view, saying we should avoid talking ourselves into recession. But in a letter to mark [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Business & money: Richard Lambert's letter warns of a 'darkening mood' in the economy
SignalBlog (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
The Bank of England was right to leave interest rates unchanged at 5.00 percent on Thursday, a business lobby said. Richard Lambert, CBI director general, said that although recent data show the slowdown in UK economic activity is gathering pace, and business and consumer confidence is falling further, inflation is expected to rise further in the [...]
