""I've met a lot of MPs over the years," Walker said. "Very few understand how a business actually runs. There's still a mindset in parts of government that treats profit like a dirty word, when profit is precisely what allows businesses to invest, employ people and pay tax.""
""Without profit, you don't have reinvestment. You don't have job security. And you certainly don't have tax receipts," he said. "Yet too often policy is designed as if businesses are somehow the enemy, rather than the engine.""
""The best ones visit stores, talk to staff and understand the reality on the ground," he said. "But too many just want a photo opportunity and then disappear.""
""From business rates to energy policy to food regulation, it's a mess," he said. "Defra is saying one thing about sustainability, the Treasury is saying another about taxation, and local councils are all doing their own thing.""
A lack of commercial understanding within government makes it harder for companies to operate and actively holds back economic growth. Many politicians fail to grasp how businesses function, particularly low‑margin firms that employ thousands across regions. Profit enables reinvestment, job security, and tax receipts; treating profit as a dirty word undermines sustainable growth. Policy choices can have immediate, real‑world consequences for margins and employment. Some politicians engage superficially rather than learning operational realities on the ground. Whitehall shows poor coordination, with conflicting agendas across business rates, energy policy, food regulation, Treasury taxation positions, Defra sustainability goals, and local councils.
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