Sir Richard Branson has called on the government to invest in SME businesses throughout the UK and feels that the Coalition should be doing more. 

The UK's best known entreprenuer told the Observer. 'To get growth, we need to get behind the small and meium sized businesses that are the engines of any heathy economy. They need investment and finance, and that comes from the big banks. The politicians talk of encouraging lending; we need action to meet the rhetoric. The Government needs to focus on smaller businesses and find ways of making it easier to set up a business in the UK. It should look at reducing rates and regulation on small and start-up companies.