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I’m very pleased to say that the UK is becoming an incredibly entrepreneur friendly place, largely courtesy of a number of government initiatives. The statistic being bandied around Whitehall is that 1.3m of the last 2.4m jobs created in the UK were created by startups, and something like 80% of those were created by top 6% of startups (more exact stats would be welcome). Ergo the UK needs more high quality startups and government should be doing everything it can to create the best environment for that to happen.

There is nothing new about this argument (except maybe the statistic) but for the first time government seems to really believe in it.

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Author: Nic Brisbourne