Beecroft report: We'll hire more people if we get no-fault sackings, say employers On Wednesday, in a Telegraph interview, Mr Beecroft questioned why Mr Cable, whom he described as a "socialist," had been put in charge of business policy. He called on the Prime Minister and the Chancellor to be more "robust" in their dealings with the Liberal Democrats, or the economic recovery would suffer. The Beecroft report dominated Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons on Wednesday, with Ed Miliband, the Labour leader claiming that it showed that "the nasty party is back." Mr Miliband asked the Prime Minister: "Are you really telling us that, with record numbers out of work, sacking people for no good reason is a price worth paying?" Mr Cameron defended it as a "good report" but made clear he was under no obligation to accept all its recommendations. "The Beecroft report, which I commissioned, had a number of excellent ideas that we are taking forward," said the Prime Minister. We are doubling the qualifying period for unfair dismissal, we are exempting businesses with less than 10 people from new EU regulations, we are exempting a million people who are self-employed from health and safety. We are consulting on no-fault dismissal, but only for micro-businesses. It was a good report and it's right that we take forward its best measures.