Shadow work and pensions secretary Helen Whately says businesses are "distraught" at the impact of the Budget. It comes as the Confederation of British Industry warns tax rises in the autumn Budget are "undermining investment among UK companies". Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I can't tell you what Kemi is going to be saying to the CBI, but what I can say is from
00:05the conversations I've had with businesses, businesses are really shocked, if not distraught,
00:11at what the government has been doing to them and the impact of the budget on businesses.
00:16So we have a Labour government that said that they were going to be pro-growth and that
00:23talked a nice story to businesses in the run-up to the election and then have turned around
00:27and done the exact opposite, slapped taxes on businesses, made it harder for them to
00:33grow and made it harder for them to employ people, which is something for me, a shadow
00:38secretary of work and pensions, I really want to see businesses able to do.