Chancellor George Osborne today made a dramatic pledge to "do everything" to make Britain the most competitive place in the world to do business.
Osborne told the Conservative Party Conference Britain has "no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world" as economic power shifts east to Asia. But he said the government was committed to British business, enterprise and aspiration. "We will do everything to make Britain one of the most competitive places in the world to do business", he told delegates in Birmingham. "We want this country to be an ideas factory for the world that is open for business." He said while global economic dangers had not fully passed, measures taken by the coalition government to ta...
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