Stock Spotlight: No fears of Burberry abandoning UK despite chair's pessimistic comments

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Eve Maddock-Jones
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Burberry chair Gerry Murphy's disparaging comments about the UK have not worried investors that the British fashion house has fallen out of love with its home market.

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