We need to be more Thatcher and go business first, says British ‘Elon Musk’
They include business tax breaks, entrepreneurship grants and enterprise zones. Mr Warner said: “There are going to be tons of opportunities. The challenge is what to do now as the furlough goes away.”
Saying we should emulate the Iron Lady’s 1980s transformation of business, he added: “Because of Thatcherism, privatisation worked.
“Ultimately, they’re looking for job creators but we’ve learned we can’t rely on import jobs coming in from Apple and other people. So you have to create it at the grassroots level.
“It’s better to have 200-300,000 businesses hiring anything between five to 20 people over the next 10 years than it is to prop up some large companies.
“They have got to propagate innovation. They have got to think like that otherwise we will end up getting caught behind.
