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Government policy is hitting businesses and causing huge numbers to fail across the South East.
The latest figures published by Equifax, a key credit rating agency, show a 27% year on year increase in business failures in the South East.
This follows hot on the heels of reports which showed UK economic growth in the last nine months was zero and that unemployment had hit 2.57million – the highest figure since 1994.
Peter Skinner MEP, a Labour Economic spokesman in the European Parliament:
“It is deeply worrying that business failures are up by more than 27% compared with last year. Read the rest of this article »
James West, Peter Skinner and Reg Bell
“Ban live exports” was the strong message from South East Euro MP Peter Skinner and local campaigners after a meeting with national animal welfare charity Compassion in World Farming.
After years of falling live exports numbers are on the rise again. Last year the number of animals exported from Great Britain had dropped to 4000 sheep and no calves. But this year over 10,000 sheep, calves, pigs and goats calves had been exported already. Read the rest of this article »
Euro MP Peter Skinner is calling for a national and regional economic growth plan as UK unemployment hits record levels and starts to rise again in the South East.
UK economic growth in the last 9 months - Cuts are not delivering growth or jobs
It was announced yesterday that UK unemployment is up 80,000 and has hit 2.51million – the highest level for Read the rest of this article »
