Richard Tice

Richard Tice

Reform UK — Boston and Skegness

Speaking in the House of Commons on 2 July 2025

Debate

Corporate Businesses and Franchisees: Regulatory Environment

Contribution

I am most grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. He makes a powerful case about the differences between small businesses, entrepreneurs, franchisees and the big corporates. Does he share my concern that franchisees suffer the risk of what is essentially corporate bullying from the mega-companies—the likes, potentially, of Vodafone—and that they do not have any form of umbrella regulatory comfort? Entities such as the British Franchise Association may sound effective, but they are actually toothless in the face of such corporate bullying.

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