John Walsh: Unlike New Labour, Sinn Féin won’t need the support of business to get into power

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“While Blair expended a lot of time and energy courting business, Sinn Féin can afford to be much more ambivalent. In fact, its anti-establishment image is appealing to a growing cohort of voters.”

Tony Blair spent the first few years as leader of New Labour trying to persuade the British business community that his party could be trusted to manage the country’s economy. Getting business leaders onside was considered a necessary precondition to gaining control of the levers of power.

And the strategy worked. Gerry Robinson, the late Donegal-born businessman who was then chairman of Granada TV, was one of the first big beasts to openly support Labour. ...

 

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