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By: Tim Dier

Tim Dier is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies and runs an SME

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  • UK is no longer a world leader – but we can use that to our advantage

    Opinion

    The sooner the UK can accept it's now an underdog - and exploit the advantages that come with it - the better, writes Tim Dier.

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  • Big government is smothering SMEs

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    The government’s Employment Rights Act will drive yet another nail in the coffin of SMEs, says Tim Dier According to the Department of Business and Trade (DBT), Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) employ around 16.9m of us, a whopping 60 per cent of total private sector jobs. That includes everyone from the white-van man through [...]

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