SOME OF Britain's most prominent business leaders have delivered a rebuke to Tony Blair after the government backed down on public-sector pension reform, according to The Times .
In a letter 16 business leaders accused the Prime Minister of setting “a poor example to the country” by abandoning plans to raise the pension age for public sector workers from 60 to 65, says the The paper. The letter was written by John Sunderland, president of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), and co-signed by businessmen including Martin Broughton, chairman of British Airways, Stuart Rose, chief executive of Marks & Spencer, Nick Land, chairman of Ernst & Young, and Paul Walsh, chief executive of Diageo. Sunderland spelled out the “strength of feeling that exists within...
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