Legal & General chief Nigel Wilson’s well-aimed rocket at government

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Legal & General chief executive Nigel Wilson (PA Archive)

“We have to recognise we’ve starved our economy of growth equity and the consequence is we are a low growth, low productivity, low wage economy fraught by political infighting. This has to change.”

Ouch!

CEOs usually choose their words carefully when it comes to politics; mustn’t upset the children in Westminster. Legal & General boss Nigel Wilson has clearly decided Britain’s problems run so deep that diplomatic language won’t do any longer.