Not a single Labour Minister in the present government has founded or built a business. Not one. Labour have not got the slightest clue about how the real world of working people, trying to make a living and build companies, actually works. I have built businesses and, as all entrepreneurs know only too well, it feels like government only gets in the way, constantly creating more regulations and red tape, which slows growth and increases costs.

Suffocating red tape and taxes, not to mention the high cost of energy, can even cause businesses to close down or not be started in the first place. So I decided to back a political party which actually understands the world that entrepreneurs and wealth-creators live in. That is why I have backed the Conservative Party under Kemi Badenoch.

Kemi speaks plainly about the need to cut regulation and shrink the size of the state so as to attract investment and get the economy firing again. There are no platitudes, rather a serious plan rooted in real-world experience. When she says we need to reward work, restore discipline to public spending and stop pretending Britain can tax its way to prosperity, she is speaking plain truth.

And people are starting to listen.

You can see it with commentators, who had previously written the Conservatives off, now acknowledging Kemi has brought focus and done the hard yards to get the Conservative policy platform right.

The commentators who wanted her to fail have instead found a leader getting on with the job. She is calling out Labour’s litany of disastrous economic policies, and providing a clear and authentic Conservative vision. She is rebuilding the party from the ground up.

Like so many others in business, I am looking for seriousness, for honesty about past mistakes and for clarity about the road ahead. Under Kemi’s leadership, the Conservatives are again offering just that.

So yes, I have donated because Britain needs a government that not only believes in business, but also will take action to foster enterprise, aspiration and hard work. Right now, only Kemi and the Conservative team are speaking to these goals and formulating relevant policies to turn Britain around.

• Guy Pinsent is an entrepreneur and Conservative party donor. He recently made and co-presented a documentary film, “Should Brits Come Home?”, exploring some of the issues in Britain today, including tax, national identity, migration and even the prospect of civil war.