George Osborne: City 'has lost sympathy with this Labour government'

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Michael Nelson
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Businesses in the City have lost sympathy for the current Labour government, after last year’s Budget left people feeling that Britain was “not a very enterprising place”, former chancellor George Osborne said.

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