On Friday I visited Able Flame, a small business in Moons Moat. They are a very successful small business who wanted to talk to me about the current economic conditions.

“I was delighted to meet the directors of Able Flame because I realise that small and medium enterprises are the backbone of our economy and we need to be encouraging more of them to come to our county and to Redditch.

We had a very frank discussion about the future and I was pleased to be able to take away their concerns and pass them on to Government ministers.”

Karen is seen here with Simon Johnson.