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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Woodcock

Fears that Jeremy Hunt’s tax-and-spend plan will send businesses into ‘hibernation’

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Business will go into “hibernation” in a “decade of no growth” unless chancellor Jeremy Hunt matches tax rises in the upcoming mini-Budget with moves to relax rules on immigration, planning and regulations, the CBI has warned.

Failure to take action to tackle labour shortages will be “damaging in the short and long term”, the business organisation’s director general Tony Danker said.

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