Down but not out: Innovation key to UK recovery as Brexit and vaccine fog slowly lifts

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On New Year’s Eve 1999, the FTSE 100 closed at a then-record high of 6,930. Few would have envisaged that 20 years later we would be at 6,603, lower than where we were at the turn of the century.

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