If Sports Direct can change, why not all our workplaces? | Martin Kettle

Mike Ashley agrees workers should be on the board. This idea has been a success in Germany – it could be in Britain too

When Theresa May talked about industrial strategy, reform of corporate governance and workers on boards this summer, her words came completely out of the blue. She wasn’t responding to a hot issue in British politics. She wasn’t jumping aboard a populist or media bandwagon. Few in her party cared about these issues at all. In almost every serious respect the issues were as dead as dodos in British politics.

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British companies have too often been run by people who think management know best and that employees know nothing

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