Mr Younger is considering whether organisations working in co-operation should be counted as a single group.. He urged ministers not to exploit the loophole before referendums in the North-west, North-east and Yorkshire this autumn on whether to set up regional assemblies.The Government plans to run a £5m information campaign but is refusing to give such a promise. "Permitted participants" can spend up to £500,000 and there are fears that the "yes" and "no" camps in the Europe referendum will get round the rules by setting up lots of small groups. But spending limits for other groups, including the "yes" and "no" camps, apply from 10 weeks before the vote.

"Government should operate under the same restrictions as everybody else," he said. "The danger of confusion is a really significant factor that we should take account of," he said.Mr Younger, a former managing director of the BBC World Service, wants the Government to tighten the rules on spending in referendum campaigns before the vote on the proposed European Union constitution.The Government can run information campaigns until four weeks before a referendum. Labour should pass the running of some public services to charities if it wins a third term, Alan Milburn, the leading Blairite and former secretary of state for health, said yesterday. But Labour traditionalists fear a re-elected Blair government would undermine the welfare state. Allies of the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, are wary of demands by Blairites for more public sector reforms before they have been properly thought through.Mr Milburn, who is advising Tony Blair on Labour's election manifesto, said: "Reform is not a process that starts one day and stops the next. You make all sorts of mistakes too, many of them you just can't prepare for."Some people are put off by the demands of an entrepreneur, says Burdess.

He took the plunge because he was frustrated with the other things he had tried. "I can't go back to PAYE now, I am looking for another enterprise," he says.. Another success has been Roam Ware Inc, set up by alumnus Vijay Uttarwar which enables someone with a mobile phone to receive all the extras while travelling abroad."American Professor John Mullins, chair of the entrepreneurship faculty at LBS comments: "The hottest thing on campus right now is entrepreneurship. What it cannot prepare you for is the emotional rollercoaster of the actual experience. You find out amazing things about your own ability and the most incredible opportunities emerge which you would never have imagined. Ventures include Uzbekistan's first investment bank, technology and not-for-profit digital science start-ups.One of the attractions of LBS is its Sussex Place Ventures (SPV), which seeks out funds for students, many of whom are already working on a venture, or find one once there. Keith Willey, head of SPV, says: "We have helped fund Richard Downs's travel agency iglu , which is profitable.