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Would Jesse Boot have agreed with Stefano Pessina? (Clue: he called his employees ‘comrade’)

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issue 07 February 2015
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Right Boot, left Boot

What would Jesse Boot, who built Britain’s largest chemist chain from his father’s herbal shops, made of the spat between Labour and Stefano Pessina, chief executive of the firm? — Boot was a lifelong Liberal, but then he was already 50 years old when the Labour party was formed.

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