Labour went to war with Boots yesterday after the chemist chain warned of catastrophe if the party won the general election. Stefano Pessina, the firm’s acting boss, said Ed Miliband’s policies were ‘not helpful for business and not helpful for the country’. Labour business spokesman Chuka Umunna hit back with a series of extraordinary attacks on Mr Pessina and his firm, which has 70,000 UK workers. He questioned whether Boots paid enough tax while fellow Labour MPs said they would not listen to a multi-millionaire who lived in ‘a big mansion’. Scroll down for video Boots chief Stefano Pessina (left) has warned it would be a 'catastrophe' if Labour and Ed Miliband (right) win power. Pessina claimed Miliband’s policies were ‘not helpful for business and not helpful for the country’
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Ed Miliband under growing pressure after a series of attacks on leadership
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Boots boss Stefano Pessina said Labour plans 'not helpful for business'
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Billionaire said: 'If they acted as they speak, it would be a catastrophe'
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Shadow minister Chuka Umunna attacked the Boots chief's remarks
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Miliband allies were said to be plotting a way to keep him in place, even if Labour lose the election;
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The editor of the left-wing New Statesman said the leader had a ‘haunted’ look and even shadow chancellor Ed Balls had ‘all but given up’ on him;
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The party’s biggest private donor attacked Mr Miliband’s NHS and mansion tax policies;
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Lord Mandelson was accused of plotting to destabilise Mr Miliband;
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The party’s election campaign chief Douglas Alexander repeatedly refused to rule out a deal with Scottish nationalists in the event of a hung parliament.
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