Andrew Griffith MP
@griffitha
Devoting myself to reforming SW1’s culture of failure after a 25 year career in business. Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Trade.
Socialists don’t understand ambition or success. Not one Cabinet Minister has ever run a business. That’s why Labour are set on blowing out Britain’s entrepreneurial spark.
🎥WATCH: Shadow Business and Trade Secretary @griffitha applauded our work at a recent @Prosperity_Inst event when our Director @isaby asked him about the Government's commitment to prioritising growth 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=3O2Csy…
It’s the nature of business to take risk, fail sometimes and retrench. Not every closure or job loss is government related. But there is a pattern, especially in high street and hospitality, of rising costs, state determined wages and taxes hikes leading to job losses. ⬇️

Rachel Reeves finally found the courage to stand up to Angela Rayner. Now she's remembered she's the Chancellor, will she stop Rayner's union-written Employment Rights Bill which will cost businesses £5 billion?

This level of borrowing is not remotely ‘unexpected’ given the out of her depth Chancellor. She is no more capable of balancing her books than a first year undergrad in freshers week.

Constituents come to me seeking help after waiting years for affordable local housing in Chichester, Horsham and Arun Districts. The queues are horrific. But our embarrassing PM thinks there is loads available. Perhaps anyone who voted for him could explain (below) where it is?
UK 10-year bond yields are the highest in the G7: 4.6-4.7pc vs 2.7-3.6pc in Ger/Fra/Ita/Can and 4.4pc in US. Asian economies even lower - 1.5-2.9pc in Jap,China & Korea. UK is paying the price for poor control of inflation and excessive spending & borrowing by the current gov’t.
High street and hospitality businesses are bleeding out. There is an emerging crisis of young unemployed. Wealth creators fleeing, Yet this government is wasting taxpayers money on a 40 year old cold case for socialist nostalgia obsessives.
Promise made. Promise delivered. This Labour government is establishing an inquiry into the violent confrontation between police and picketers at Orgreave.
Deloitte consumer sentiment down…confirming what everyone other than Rachel Reeves and her socialist friends already knew! 🔻

What would Norman Tebbit have made of Labour’s Employment Rights Bill? My article for Conservative Home. conservativehome.com/2025/07/21/and…
In the shadow of political chaos, a quiet storm brews in Britain's countryside. Farmers face a future where family legacies are threatened by a controversial tax. express.co.uk/news/uk/208440…
I was pleased to sit down and talk about politics, The City and business on 'the Business Case' podcast recently. The Business Case - with Mark Wharrier and Phil Clark shows.acast.com/the-business-c…
All businesses have been hit by this government’s bad choices…but few as profoundly as the hospitality sector.
‘Worse than Covid’: hospitality bosses blame Reeves’ budget for UK downturn | Hospitality industry | The Guardian theguardian.com/business/2025/…
OpenAI ChatGPT just launched their most powerful tool yet — in the UK but NOT in the EU. It can book flights, hotels, and manage your diary and inbox. Thanks to Brexit, we get the world’s most powerful AI. Another reason Labour must not let Brussels make our rules.


Last night, the Lib Dems betrayed farmers. They voted against our amendment to exempt farms from 300 pages of employment red-tape. Because of their vote we narrowly lost — now hard-working farmers will suffer for it. The Lib Dems are not on the side of British farmers.

Labour are a shambles. The Business Secretary hears every day that the Employment Rights Bill is bad for the economy — but his hands are tied by Angela Rayner and the unions. They must put politics aside, listen to the CBI, Make UK & FSB, and shelve this destructive Bill.
And I have zero regrets!
Criticising Labour’s EU reset at the Bruges Group last night, Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith recounted being kicked out of Tory Conference in 1990 - for the crime of leafleting against joining the ERM at the bottom of the escalators
Sooner or later Treasury Ministers need to act against the FCA. Some good people there but basically an international embarrassment to the City. cityam.com/fca-staff-thre…