Cable relaxes crackdown on executive pay

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Vince Cable is understood to be reconsidering a hard-hitting proposal that would see chief executives face an annual binding vote on their pay and bonuses.

The business secretary is now planning on a vote every three years, according to a report in The Independent. The initial yearly vote had been proposed by Cable in a paper on tackling corporate ...

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