By doing this would this help his mates in some of the bigger businesses buy up smaller competition for the equivalent of nothing?
He seems to have no regard for the so called entrepreneur spirit his party professes to support.
First point - probably not. I'm talking really small businesses here. The ones that employ up to say, 250 employees. They'll just liquidate.
His party no longer supports the entrepreneur. No help during the pandemic, IR35, reverse charge VAT. All seemingly engineered to fuck them over.