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Lord Sugar has announced that he is leaving Britain’s center-left main opposition Labour Party due to its “negative business policies.”
Sugar is a famous entrepreneur and public figure in the U.K., owing his fame mainly to his BBC show The Apprentice, and has been involved with Labour for 18 years.
He said that the party “had been aware of my disillusionment for some time.”
“In the past year, I found myself losing confidence in the party due to their negative business policies and the general anti-enterprise concepts they were considering if they were to be elected,” he said in a statement.
“I sensed a policy shift moving back towards what Old Labour stood for,” he said, using the term for the pre-1990s hard-left Labour era.
Sugar claimed he made his decision at the start of the year but “rather than use my decision to possibly damage the party’s chances in the election, I decided, as a relatively high-profile individual, to keep my intentions quiet for the duration of the campaign.”
He will remain as a peer in the House of Lords, Britain’s unelected upper chamber of parliament.
