UK Only Article:
UK article only
Issue:
Putin’s war on the West
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Entrepreneurship
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The government isn’t touting it, but its record on entrepreneurship is good
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“OTHER ministers bring me problems; David brings me solutions.” So said Margaret Thatcher of one of her favourites, Lord Young. The lady is gone, but the lord—now an enterprise adviser to David Cameron, her successor—is still fixing things. Lost in a row over whether Labour hates all business or merely the wicked kind (see article), this government has quietly presided over an entrepreneurial boom.
In 2013 more businesses were created in Britain than in any year for at least a decade (see chart). Emma Jones of Enterprise Nation, a lobby group for start-ups, says that the 2014 tally was even higher. Many of them are laid-off builders and architects setting up on their own. But among these “necessity entrepreneurs” are a valuable clump of more ambitious folk, who are taking on established ...
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