article_snippet.sent: It comes just days after more than 100 company bosses signed a letter warning against a Labour Government.
article_snippet.sent: The poll of 35 business chairman, by the headhunters Korn Ferry, is a further blow to Labour which is struggling to repair Labour relationship with big business after a series of controversial policy announcements.
article_snippet.sent: One of the FTSE 100 bosses surveyed, who did not want to be named, said businesses could work with Labour's shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna and its economics chief Ed Balls.
article_snippet.sent: The shadow business secretary has also pointed to Labour's refusal to offer a European referendum as a policy which business supported.
article_snippet.sent: David Cameron and George Osborne, out campaigning today, have jumped on business criticism of the Labour Party to boost the Labour Party core campaign message that only the Tories can be trusted with the economy .
article_snippet.sent: Last week, Mr Umunna and a host of other Labour figures hit out at Britain's top business leaders after Britain's top business leaders backed the Conservatives economic plan and urged voters not to risk a 'change of course'.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Umunna, meanwhile, dismissed the signatories as a 'cosy little club', while Labour peer John Precott went further criticising Labour peer as 'tax dodgers, Tory voters and non-doms'.
article_snippet.sent: The business chiefs who signed the letter run companies with well known retail brands such as Primark, Iceland, Ladbrokes and Costa Coffee.
article_snippet.sent: Bosses behind big name retailers, drinks and restaurants have backed the Tory economic plan, including (top row) Primark and Costa and (bottom row) Ladbrokes, Cobra, Tango and Iceland .
article_snippet.sent: Executives at consumer brands such as Cobra beer, Britvic, Silver Spoon, Kingsmill, Thorntons, Robinsons, Tango and London Pride are also on the list.
article_snippet.sent: Embarrassingly for Labour, the list of business chiefs includes several who supported the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
highlights_snippet.sent: Comes after 100 business chiefs signed an open letter in support of Tories .
  