Beardy BIS select committee chair Adrian Bailey is grilling Pfizer’s and Astrazeneca’s bosses this morning, doing his best to show Britain is not open for business. What qualifications does Bailey have to judge international business deals? Perhaps he is calling on his own experience of financial transactions issuing library fines back when he was a librarian. Or maybe he is relying on his unrivalled expertise at mediating major disputes from when he was a teacher. Has he ever hired anyone? Borrowed money to launch a product? Taken a risk? Paid staff from his own savings in order to build a business? Librarian, teacher, Labour MP. His CV would suggest not…
UPDATE: He can’t even manage his own website: http://www.adrianbailey.org/