Chris Haskins, Lord Haskins, was maybe probably the most distinguished enterprise supporter of Tony Blair’s New Labour mission, introduced in to Downing Avenue initially of his administration to advise on reducing pink tape, and later as “rural tsar” within the wake of the devastating foot and mouth outbreak of 2001. What Blair would reward as Haskins’s invaluable “no nonsense method” was honed throughout 40 years build up Northern Meals into Britain’s main meals producer. There he was credited with growing the chilled meals methods which have made doable immediately’s monumental development in prepared meals and comfort meals.
Haskins, who has died aged 88, mixed the acumen of an entrepreneur and enlightened enterprise supervisor with a socialist conscience. Alongside it went a compulsion to inform the reality as he noticed it, which might generally get him into difficulties. He distanced himself from the Labour authorities after what he known as the “shame” of anti-terrorist laws within the early 2000s, and the Iraq conflict, and in a sometimes unguarded New Statesman interview, he mentioned of Blair: “He desires everybody to like him.” And of David Blunkett, the previous dwelling secretary: “It’s a must to watch him like a hawk.”
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