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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kate Devlin

Labour accuse Conservatives of alienating business with Trump-like ‘internet conspiracy theories’

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Conservative cabinet ministers spouting Trump-like conspiracy theories are alienating business, the shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds has said.

The Labour frontbencher said Britain needed the “best of government” to tackle the big issues of the day, including poor economic growth and climate change. But businesses were “getting worried” that some senior Tory figures are following a populist path of the kind ploughed with Donald Trump in the US, he claims.

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