Alan Sugar

...updated at 1:00 PM on 04th November 2009 Gordon Brown's business tsar Alan Sugar was under siege last night after dismissing struggling small firms as ' moaners' who lived in 'Disney World'. The multi-millionaire claimed a mere 15 per...

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...headlines. When Gordon Brown took the surprise decision to give Sugar a peerage and appoint him as an enterprise tsar, some Labour figures complained because of the way Sugar has treated female contestants on The Apprentice. In an...

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...to take up ministerial jobs or advisory roles to his Government. They include Admiral Lord West, the security minister, and Lord Sugar, who advises on small business issues. Mr Cameron has also said he will ennoble Tory advisers, such as...

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Sugar, who took a seat in the House of Lords after Gordon Brown's reshuffle in June, was retained as presenter of The Apprentice after the BBC ruled his role as government advisor would not compromise the corporation's impartiality. A BBC...

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Lord Sugar: I may even fire myself Sir Alan Sugar - Gordon Brown's small business tsar - could quit the role, he warned yesterday. He sparked anger last week by dismissing businessmen who complain they cannot get loans to keep their...

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The Prime Minister threw his weight behind Lord Sugar after small business leaders demanded the resignation of Government's so-called Enterprise Czar following comments that struggling businesses were "moaners" living in "Disney World." He...

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...who thinks they have a good idea.' Lord Sugar, who was appointed by Gordon Brown to champion the cause of small firms earlier this year, admitted his straight-talking views were not always popular. No comments have so far been submitted.

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...Sugar makes a speech to the House of Lords Photo: PA The next series of Lord Alan Sugar's reality business show will be broadcast in June, after the national vote has been held. The move comes after the Conservatives said the...

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...problematic. It was one of those gimmicks where the hunger for a day's headlines meant the consequences were not thought through - and now we see the embarrassing fallout from Sugar's insulting remarks about small business. Enterprise...

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