Capita senses a change in the wind
When New Labour was in the ascendancy no one padded the corriders of power with more diligence than Capita’s Rod Aldridge. But Mr Aldridge is no longer in the box seat at Capita - an excess of Blairite diligence brought him down - so it’s left to Paul Pindar to place the outsourcer’s bets. An article in the Times today suggests that the former No.2 senses a change in the weather.
“If the BPO industry has one person to thank for its early acceptance and then huge growth,” says Capita’s new front man, “it is Margaret Thatcher…”
As Police Chief Renault says in Casablanca, “I blow with the wind, and for the moment the wind is blowing from Vichy.” Ideological conservatives might wince, but that’s politics.
