article_snippet.sent: Some had supported Labour at previous elections.
article_snippet.sent: An Ipsos Mori poll of FTSE 100 leaders suggests 86 per cent will back the Conservatives.
article_snippet.sent: Under Tony Blair, 55 per cent backed Labour.
article_snippet.sent: Veteran Labour MP Barry Sheerman claimed the letter indicated a ‘clear decline in British political life’, accusing the businesspeople of endorsing ‘right-wing policies that benefit the businesspeople of endorsing ‘right-wing policies that benefit them’’.
article_snippet.sent: Last night Labour released Labour own list of names, backing a ‘Labour Government to put working people first’.
article_snippet.sent: Embarrassingly for Labour, the list of business leaders features several who supported the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
article_snippet.sent: the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown include Sir Charles Dunstone, chairman of Dixons Carphone and Talk Talk, who signed a letter backing Labour in 2005.
article_snippet.sent: Other former Labour supporters who signed a letter backing Labour in 2005 included: Surinder Arora, described as a ‘big fan’ of Tony Blair in 2007; Dragons’ Den star Duncan Bannatyne, who unveiled a ‘seaside manifesto’ with Gordon Brown before the 2010 election; Sir Cameron Mackintosh, who made a donation to Labour in 1998’; and Moni Varma, who signed a letter to the Financial Times before the 2005 election backing Labour.
article_snippet.sent: Den star Duncan Bannatyne (right) unveiled a ‘seaside manifesto’ with Gordon Brown (left) before the 2010 election .
article_snippet.sent: Early in Gordon Brown (left) before the 2010 election leadership, Gordon Brown (left) before the 2010 election alienated business chiefs with class war rhetoric and quasi-Marxist policies Gordon Brown (left) before the 2010 election opponents said would drag Britain back to the 1970s.
article_snippet.sent: Here, JAMES SLACK examines how Red Ed drove a wedge between Labour and the wealth creators.