The scandal at the Confederation of British Industry may be terminal
The CBI is spurned by both the lobbied and the lobbied-for
Rain Newton-Smith left the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in March, after nine years as its chief economist, for Barclays bank. She is already back, as the 13th director-general of Britain’s most prominent business lobby group. And possibly its last. Engulfed by allegations of the worst kind of workplace misconduct and shunned by politicians and its own members, the CBI looks done for.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “In tatters”
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