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Barry Gardiner MP turned out to support his constituent Mahendra Jadeja at a north London business seminar this week and told retailers they were on the right track. "To get the nation going again we need business to talk to business," he said. "Think, create and innovate is the model for business. Think what your offer is, produce it and work to that pattern. "Never think you have got the model. Constantly refine. The product that you were proud to present yesterday and last year should not be today's. Today's has to be better." This is all good stuff but it is what you want to hear from a consultant and not from your MP. What you need your MP to do is listen. Instead Mr Gardiner rushed off and missed the next speaker, from Philip Morris, who spelled out the regulatory risks threatening local shopkeepers. Interestingly, Eoin Dardis started off by accepting that regulation was appropriate. "tobacco is a dangerous, addictive substance that need...