Why right now is the best time for boards to make contact with politicians who can impact—or potentially impact—your business’s bottom line.

She will join the building and engineering group’s board on 1 November as chair designate and non-executive director.

Tory leadership contest; Grant Thornton fined; Norwegian insider dealing; virtual AGMs; US environmental disclosures; diversity at Amazon.

“It is not for government to second guess what is appropriate for each business,” says the IoD, after the PM criticised remote working.

The Tory manifesto is light on governance pledges compared with the detailed—and sometimes controversial—proposals from Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

The last Conservative manifesto put governance issues front and centre; Labour has since been working on a reform agenda. How will these concerns be reflected in a general election campaign?

Sir Mick Davis, who was a key figure in Xstrata’s merger with Glencore, could return to the fray as Rio Tinto chairman, according to reports.

Standard Life Aberdeen chairman Sir Gerry Grimstone takes aim at the government’s executive pay policy, calling for “radicalism” not “incrementalism”.