The future of Britain’s economy depends on Britain’s small businesses - on those with the courage to strike out and start their own thing, who work all hours to succeed, who through love, sweat and tears make their business grow.
These people are the embodiment of British pluck and enterprise, and we need you. We need you to keep on creating good private sector jobs, so that more people can earn a living for their families and have financial security for the future. We need you to help get Britain exporting more, because in this competitive world our success will lie in making things and selling them to the world. We need you to help rebalance our economy away from too much debt, borrowing and spending and towards private enterprise, dynamism, ideas and innovation.
That’s why I spoke today at the FSB’s first Policy Conference - and it’s why this government is pulling every lever possible to back small business.
We’re cutting employers’ National Insurance by £2,000. We’re leading a review on late payment, for all those small businesses who struggle while their invoices go unpaid for weeks on end. We’re beefing up the government’s trade body, UKTI, to help you export. We have provided thousands of Start-up Loans to those who need finance to start a business. We have stood up to the energy companies that put small businesses on roll-over contracts that cost them dear. And we’re promoting you all over the world - as when I took the biggest-ever delegation of small businesses to China.
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