The Tories made a "mistake" in the 1990s by following the corporate agenda too slavishly, David Cameron said yesterday, in a clear signal of his continued willingness to disagree with the business lobby.The Conservative leader insisted he has "really good relations" with business, rejecting criticism from the CBI employers' body that he is sending mixed messages through his professed desire to be pro-business while threatening to regulate against irresponsible companies. "I don't think there have been conflicting signals at all," he said.

What will the low-cost economy of the future look like? If the UK is going to meet its target of reducing its carbon dioxide by 60pc by 2050 as the Government has pledged, the nation is going to have to operate in a whole new way, but what vision should we build of a low-carbon economy — and how can we hope to get there?

Business people want Boris Johnson to win the race to become Mayor of London but believe Ken Livingstone will secure a third term, according to a ComRes survey of 100 City bosses.

Some of the world's leading computer makers don't want you to know about Local Technic Industry. It's a typical Malaysian company, one of many small makers of the cast-aluminum bodies for hard-disk drives used in just about every name-brand machine on the market.

Alistair Darling is to give Britain's financial watchdog new powers to clean up the City by adopting a US-style whistle-blower system that will grant immunity from prosecution in return for evidence about market manipulation.

The government yesterday backed an ambitious blueprint by the TV psychologist Dr Tanya Byron to improve child safety online, but immediately faced a backlash over plans to introduce cinema-style ratings for video games.

Investigations into workplace fatalities could become more intensive after new corporate manslaughter law comes into force, experts have warned.

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