Key trends in corporate governance for 2020
Five leading voices in corporate governance explain their priorities—and predictions—for the year ahead.
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'The government needs to push through key business reforms'
Roger Barker, head of corporate governance at the Institute of Directors
The UK General Election delivered an overwhelming political mandate for the Conservative government. As well as using this mandate to break through the Brexit logjam, I hope that some of the accumulated political capital will be used to undertake other important business policy reforms which—for the last year or so—have been largely neglected due to a lack of government priority or legislative bandwidth.
Of particular concern is the uncertain future of some key reforms relating to the UK’s internati
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