Welcome to Refresh – a series of comment pieces by young people, for young people, looking for a response to Britain's biggest issues
Free enterprise is under threat. Companies now face a more hostile environment in which to do business than at any time in the last 40 years.
When business supports 82 per cent of all employment in this country – and provides the taxes to pay for the remaining 18 per cent – this is a dangerous problem.
Negativity towards business is particularly acute among the younger generation. Recent polling by Number Cruncher Politics shows that just 15 per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds support private enterprise.
A separate study by the Legatum Institute found that young...