If Blair can’t save the world for us, then business will

The world’s gone upside down. First, there’s David Cameron championing the public sector ethos and suggesting there’s more to politics than economic growth; then last week 14 of the UK’s corporate great and good, including establishment firms such as Shell, Tesco, B&Q and Standard Chartered Bank, trooped along to Downing Street to lobby the government for tougher targets on greenhouse gases. Something wrong, surely. Shouldn’t it be the government that’s the guardian of the greater good, while business resists any limitation on its ability to make profits?

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