Can Boris Johnson mend fences with business?

Inside Business: Relations with the business community weren’t good under Theresa May. They could be about to get a whole lot worse

The new PM mustn’t kowtow to the destructive nationalists in his orbit (EPA)

The one-time party of business has elected a man who once notoriously said “f**k business” as its leader.

Relations between the Tories and the business community reached something of a nadir under Theresa May, reflecting her politics. Hers was a largely right wing, provincial style of Conservatism that has become distrustful of big business and the City.

But if nothing else, the Conservative Party has time and again proven that when you want to scrape the bottom of the barrel you have to execute an extraordinarily deep dive.