FMB’s Brian Berry: ‘That anyone can be a builder is not helpful to the reputation of the industry’

By Daniel Gayne2024-04-02T05:00:00

With an election on the horizon, Daniel Gayne spoke to the leader of the representative body for construction SMEs to get his thoughts about the choices on offer

Brian Berry is not impressed. We are less than a year away from the next general election – hell, it could be just a few months – and what the major parties have to offer to his constituency is less than satisfactory.

On the one hand there is the Conservative government, long in the tooth and offering much-wanted engagement far too late in the day. On the other, there is the opposition: a Labour Party which appears to be more interested in courting big business than giving SMEs a hearing.

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