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  • Britain’s biggest growth threat is giving into doomsterism

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    As the Spending Review looms over Westminster, Britain must not just lie down and accept decline, writes Simon Clarke.

    Public sector pay has far outstripped private sector pay, raising concerns among business leaders.
  • Ineos boss Sir Jim Ratcliffe: UK chemical manufacturing ‘having the life squeezed out of it’

    Business

    Ineos boss Sir Jim Ratcliffe has warned British chemicals manufacturing is having the “life squeezed out of it” by the government, and is on the verge of extinction. The business titan slammed the de-industrialising of Britain, which started in the 1970s and 1980s, and criticised the government for a lack of energy strategy and high [...]

    Jim Ratcliffe has slammed the government's net zero tax.

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