Dynamic, entrepreneurial businesses are a force for good. Our country is blessed by tens of thousands of such brilliant businesses and it's time we celebrated the contribution business makes to our economy and society - jobs, incomes, prosperity.
Conservative Party infighting over the country's relationship with the EU has resulted in a collapse in business confidence, and they seek worsen the damage by dragging us out of our most productive trade relationship with our neighbours and increasing red tape*. Under us, unlike the Tories, UK PLC won't waste so much money in duplication and triplication of digital infrastructure in our richer, urban areas - whilst leaving untouched poorer communities and rural areas.
And unlike Labour - who don't even understand or value start-ups and small businesses - we won't put Big Brother in charge of your digital broadband. Lib Dems won't waste your taxes and scare off private investment with a nonsense return back to state-owned telecoms, where long delays and low quality were the order of the day.
Yes, we want business to be responsible - and when it comes to looking after employees and the environment, we need laws to ensure responsible businesses aren't undercut. But Liberal Democrats are the only party who understand the importance of these businesses and who will ensure that they have the access to funding and long-term capital that they need.
Liberal Democrats are now the party of business. And we will be the Government of Business.
Our priorities in the next parliament will be:
* The Government's own figures show that filling in the customs forms at newly erected border controls will alone cost importers and exporters a massive £15 bn a year in red tape.