LBC: ‘Without doubt, the new Chancellor needs to focus on productivity’

As Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delay their rescue fiscal statement until 17 November, business leader, philanthropist and Phones 4U founder John Caudwell told LBC’s Andrew Marr what he would like to see from Downing Street’s new duo as they try to fill their budgetary black hole.

Investment and productivity are the keys to growth, said Caudwell, before going on to tackle the ‘elephant in the room’ around labour shortages and Brexit.

John Caudwell’s newly released autobiography Love, Pain & Money: The Making of a Billionaire is published by Mirror Books. All proceeds are donated to the charity Caudwell Children, which helps disabled children and their families.