PRIME Minister David Cameron has been accused of letting down British business by former Bradford restaurateur turned patrician Amjad Bashir.

The new UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, who is the party’s small business spokesman , said: “Businessmen are rightly extremely concerned about David Cameron’s failure to protect this country from EU plans to tax the City of London. More and more red tape from Brussels is threatening to strangle businesses. What they need is support and positive action and UKIP backs them fully, “Leading businessmen have written to the Prime Minister asking him to put protections for the City at the heart of his renegotiation strategy. But that’s likely to go the same way as his posturing about proposed European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker.

“Mr Cameron talks the talk but it is futile and the only way to protect business, the lifeblood of this country, is for us to leave the EU and then regulation will flow from elected MPs in Westminster.”