The former adviser to David Cameron and Second Home co-founder on immigration, childcare and the government’s disregard for small business
“When I was in No 10, the business department would routinely say small businesses are inefficient, that we were misguided in encouraging more people to start them. I think that’s a pretty perverse world view,” says Rohan Silva, co-founder of Second Home – a co-working space, with members including creative and tech businesses and charities – and a former policy adviser to David Cameron.
Silva, once the driving force behind east London’s Tech City cluster, gives an often refreshing take on business in his Evening Standard column – a gig that predates its now editor George Osborne, to whom Silva was also once a special adviser. He is no less opinionated, or eloquent, in person. He suggests, for example, that a union for entrepreneurs would combat the government’s disregard for small businesses. “We need to mobilise […] that collective action that’s won so many rights over the decades needs to be updated for this new economy.”
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Source: Guardian