British entrepreneurs are unstoppable.

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Brilliant ideas will always succeed, no matter what the environment, and this country has a long track record of producing some of the best in a wide range of sectors.

That said, we should all be doing everything we can to make Britain the best place in the world to set up and build a business.

It's one thing to say that, but another thing to make it happen. My sense is that the entrepreneurial community feels a bit unloved at the moment.

The Government says growth is its number one priority, and entrepreneurs are the people who create jobs. But the only place we have really seen jobs go up over the last year is in the public sector.

Pay rises in the public sector are almost double those in the private sector. We've all heard about businesspeople upping and leaving for places like Dubai - though that now looks like less of a good idea than it might have been.

There is still a substantial entrepreneurial class in........

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