Charlie Mullins, Author at Elite Business Magazine

Charlie Mullins

Erstwhile plumbing apprentice and now regular media commentator/motivational speaker, Charlie Mullins OBE, is the archetypal entrepreneur. Launching his business from scratch in 1979, Charlie subsequently built Pimlico Plumbers into a multi-million-pound enterprise, which in 2021. He is now chairman of WeFix London, which he launched with his family. He was awarded an OBE for services to plumbing in the 2014 Queen’s New Year’s Honours and his autobiography, Bog Standard Business was published in 2015.

Gangs taking over Britain’s high streets as government lets it happen

Charlie Mullins

May 21 '26

Organised crime gangs are taking over UK high streets, disguised as businessmen, while the government fails to act

Government’s youth jobs push is welcome, but it still doesn’t go far enough

Charlie Mullins

Apr 28 '26

Almost one million young people in the UK are currently not in education, employment or training. That number has risen sharply in recent years, and it should worry everyone

The real enemy: it’s not the dinghies, it’s the algorithm coming for your kid’s first job

Charlie Mullins

Mar 24 '26

While the country argues about what it can see, something far bigger has walked straight through the front door

Britain is driving family businesses off a cliff and pretending it’s progress

Charlie Mullins

Feb 24 '26

The UK is actively hostile to those who create jobs, take risks and build companies that last

Go where you’re appreciated: Why young Brits should look to Dubai for a better life

Charlie Mullins

Jan 13 '26

The simple maxim “go where you’re appreciated” has been echoing in my mind ever since Labour swept to victory in the 2024 general election

Reeves’ ‘Budget Bomb’ and the OBR leak that shows how broken the system really Is

Charlie Mullins

Dec 10 '25

You couldn’t make it up. We didn’t recently get a disastrous Budget; we got it leaked early. And it was more a case of ‘spoil your day’ than ‘spoiler alert’

Time to jail the wage thieves

Charlie Mullins

Nov 10 '25

I’ll tell you what, I’m fuming. The Department for Business and Trade has just named 491 companies that underpaid their workers. Between them they’ve been hit with a staggering £10.3 million in fines

Inheritance Tax: An attack on entrepreneurs, family firms and economic growth

Charlie Mullins

Oct 13 '25

Inheritance Tax (IHT) is often described as unpopular. I’d go further: it is the most economically damaging, counterproductive, and morally indefensible levy in the UK tax system

After government’s steel takeover it should refer itself to bankruptcy court, for what a judge called being ‘hopelessly insolvent’

Charlie Mullins

Sep 3 '25

Recently, the government took control of Liberty Steel, which has three sites, two in Rotherham and another in Sheffield

Reeves’ ‘Budget Bombshell’ was no April Shower, it was the beginning of a business bloodbath!

Charlie Mullins

Aug 20 '25

Three months ago, fallout from Rachel Reeves’ first budget left UK businesses praying for a miracle to save them from the double-whammy of increases in the National Minimum Wage and employers’ National Insurance (NI)