What do you want to ask Britain's leaders? If Lord Ashcroft's focus groups are anything to go by, perhaps why Boris he puts the milk in before taking the teabag out? Or who's going to pay you for a four-day week? (Or something even more amusing, if unprintable)
On 25 November you'll have the chance to ask some of the UK's political heavyweights your burning questions, when we join forces with Enterprise Nation, IPSE, Coadec and ICAEW for a hustings in Moorgate.
The 2019 General Election Small Business Debate will be chaired by the FT's Dan Thomas, and will feature: Liz Truss (Conservative), Ed Davey (Lib Dems), Bill Esterson (Labour), Amelia Womack (Greens), and Benyamin Habib (Brexit).
Find out more here, and sign up here. You'll need the code 'TENHUSTING' to get your ticket. I hope to see you there!
(NB. I'll update you next week with details of the live stream, as well as IPSE's Scottish hustings.)
Members' Manifesto
I'm not sure why it's taking the major parties so long to produce their manifestos. We managed to write ours with Coadec in a week. It's a blueprint for any new government that wants to unleash the dynamism of Britain's ambitious startups.
We will launch it in about a week, but before this we're asking entrepreneurs to sign a letter to back the policies. If you want to take a sneak peek at the Manifesto with a view to signing the open letter, please sign up here for FREE to become a Member of The Entrepreneurs Network.
By backing us, you are backing Britain's entrepreneurs.
Queen of the castle
New research from Octopus Ventures ranks universities on the number of high quality spinouts they produce. Queen’s University Belfast tops the list.
The size of the opportunity for the UK to capitalise on more academic spinouts is massive. In the US, MIT alone has been the genesis for 26,000 companies with a combined turnover of $2tn (65% of UK GDP).
Trevor Clawson has written about it for Forbes, and you can read the full report here.
Wise Words
James Wise of Balderton has created an open sourced list for those interested in the tech policies being debated and proposed by the parties in the run-up to the election. Feel free to add policies, discuss and vote for favourites here.
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