For many years now, I have been rather despairing about the performance of the party that I have supported for the last 51 years: the Tories. Only five years ago, I donated half a million to the Conservatives to help avert the disaster that would have been Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street. But I've been increasingly critical of Tory failures since then, particularly over Rishi's mismanagement of the economy during Covid, Boris's lowering of ethical standards and, of course, associated with that the accusation that Tory cronies benefited improperly regarding Covid PPE and then the Liz Truss debacle.
When Labour launched its manifesto last Thursday, I was delighted to see that accelerating economic growth was front and centre, and that projected growth is clearly tied into making Britain a clean energy superpower. So, I can declare publicly that I will vote for Labour and I encourage everybody to do the same.
The real clincher was on Friday. I was at a business conference they were holding, 50 CEOs of the biggest companies in the UK, representing 4tn of market cap. The empathy from Rachel Reeves and the other people in the Labour party and these senior businessmen was clear. It was about the questions that were asked, and received excellent answers about what Labour is going to do with the economy.
Cauldwell added that he agreed with Starmer's vision of focusing on growth of GDP to increase the public purse and climate, science and technology.
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