Our #StartupManifesto, which outlines 21 policies the next government should implement to boost British business, was covered widely in national, local and trade media.

The Telegraph trailed the report in an article outlining the ways we could put Britain in the digital driving seat. “A new manifesto by policy campaigners Coadec and think tank the Entrepreneurs Network [suggests] regulations and bureaucracy have contrived to help keep the information age’s biggest pots of gold beyond reach. Backed by dozens of entrepreneurs from Britain’s start-up and scale-up ecosystem, their manifesto outlines a simple, three-pronged plan of action. The aim is to cement and greatly extend Britain’s position as Europe’s most innovative nation.”

An op-ed penned by Seedrs founder Jeff Lynn – one of the 250 entrepreneurs who endorsed the Manifesto – for The Times focused on how Britain must continue to attract the best and brightest globally after (if) we leave the European Union. He writes: “In the shadow of Brexit it is vital that the UK remains open to attracting and retaining great entrepreneurial talent. The manifesto rightly calls for proper implementation of the Startup and Innovator Visas, to enable more entrepreneurs to come to the UK to start and grow businesses, just as I did.”

The Manifesto was covered in the News section of both City AM and FT-backed Sifted, while our Research Director Sam Dumitriu wrote an opinion piece for CapX. “Startups and young businesses are the engines of job creation… Supporting them is key,” he writes. Joel Gladwin of Coadec – our partners in the project – wrote in the New Statesman that the next government “must reform the R&D tax credit if UK tech is to thrive”. And Annabel Denham wrote for Conservative Home outlining why the Tories cannot take the business vote for granted.

It also featured in the FinTech Times, FE News, FinTech Alliance, Small Business, and Essentials.news.