Healey: I want to help bloody-minded founders

John Healey has pledged to devote next week s Budget to bloody-minded entrepreneurs , acknowledging small and fast-growing businesses have been under pressure from a barrage of fresh taxes and regulation. The Chancellor said he would clamp down on the cost of business as well as on the cost of living, promising to patch up relations with the UK s private sector after it was targeted for revenue at three consecutive fiscal events. Healey conceded that the government s overhaul of workers rights, as well as its multiple tax grabs, have left many firms under a lot of pressure . I want to be a Chancellor who backs businesses in Britain making a profit, told The Times on a trip to Aberdeen to mark the approval of the Jackdaw gas field. And those entrepreneurs who, in the end, are the ones challenging the status quo, come up with innovative ideas and are trying some of them through sheer bloody-mindedness, to keep going through these sorts of pressures. Healey, who took