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Evening Standard
Business
Nick Lester

AstraZeneca’s stock market exit would be devastating blow, warns ex-chancellor

Losing British drug giant AstraZeneca from the London Stock Exchange would be a “devastating blow”, Tory former chancellor Norman Lamont has said as he warned the Government against using pharma firms as “cash cows”.

Speaking at Westminster, the Conservative peer argued such companies should be treated as “valuable investments to be encouraged”.

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