Tom Rutland, Labour’s parliamentary candidate for East Worthing and Shoreham, visited the Focus Group with Adur Council leader Jeremy Gardner and heard about their success and plans for growth. The company, with its Shoreham HQ, now employs 500 people.

Focus Group are a leading provider of digital workplace solutions to small and medium enterprises, supporting c. 30,000 customers by offering a single point of contact for the IT needs of clients, providing communications and software solutions, connectivity and value-added IT services.

Tom said: “Labour will give SME businesses the backing they need to reach new heights: scrapping business rates and replacing them with a fairer system, removing barriers to exports, legislating to tackle late payments and making Britain the best place to start up and scale up.”