'Socialist' Vince Cable not fit for office, says Adrian Beecroft Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, said he had seen no evidence that the measures would help the economy. Today, Mr Beecroft says ministers are not focused enough on growth and urges the Prime Minister and the Conservatives to stand up to the Liberal Democrats. I do think they are hugely held back by the Lib Dems. I think you could put together a bunch of suggestions out of the report, as a coherent programme, that would say, you know, we are tackling the issues that business has with employment law but the Lib Dems will have none of it," he says. Nick Clegg is always threatening to go nuclear and dissolve the whole thing if he doesn't get his way with this, that and the other. Which you'd think actually must be a hollow threat. Therefore, why can't the Government be more robust? I don't know what the answer is. But it is disappointing. Mr Beecroft, who has sat on the boards of more than 20 companies, says of Mr Cable: "People find it very odd that he's in charge of business and yet appears to do very little to support business." Recommendations from the Beecroft report to delay or halt family-friendly policies, such as flexible parental leave, were removed from the report by Downing Street without Mr Beecroft's knowledge. On Tuesday, a spokesman for No 10 declined five times to say that Mr Beecroft had approved the alterations to his report. Mr Beecroft, a major Tory donor, says in today's interview that he backs the delay of new family-friendly rules and questions why ministers want to "use businesses as a sort of agent of government." Asked what the impact would be by 2020 if his recommendations were not introduced, Mr Beecroft said: "Some points of lost GDP. If all my recommendations were done in the private sector [there would be] up to five per cent [increase] of GDP. I'm convinced that the result [of not implementing the proposals] is less employment than there would be and that businesses are less efficient than they could be and that the public services are hugely less efficient than they could be. He adds: "There'd be more jobs and we're in a sort of phase in this country and probably most of the western world where we're so frightened of injuring people's feelings, we ignore all the people, [because of] the unwillingness to injure some people's feelings." He claims the Business Secretary's objections to the proposals are "ideological not economic." "I think he is a socialist who found a home in the Lib Dems, so he's one of the Left," Mr Beecroft says. I think people find it very odd that he's in charge of business and yet appears to do very little to support business. The venture capitalist also discloses that the Conservatives were very supportive of his proposals in private meetings, despite Mr Cameron now publicly distancing himself from the report. He says: "I'm talking about Steve Hilton, that group and they assured me that David Cameron wanted to do the whole thing. Whether that's right or not I'm not sure but that was the strong impression I got. I've been in meetings with Oliver Letwin and Ed Davey, where Oliver Letwin was all for and Ed Davey was totally against. He added: "And then there was a large argument which I'm told ended up in the 'quad" [the core Coalition leaders of Mr Cameron, George Osborne, Nick Clegg and Danny Alexander] when they're sort of trading off one policy against the other." The International Monetary Fund backed the Government's economic policies but said that more might need to be done to cut taxes or increase spending if the economy failed to recover. The global financial watchdog concluded that measures to boost economic growth by raising spending on infrastructure had been "modest" so far. It also suggested that the Bank of England might have to embark on a new round of quantitative easing and cut interest rates.