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The Chancellors war on aspiration is a war on Britain

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By Lubov Chernukhin

It is hard to remember a time when Britain’s hard-working majority felt so betrayed and unheard.

I came to the UK in 1999, when it was a country alive with opportunity and a belief that success could be earned through hard work.

It is the country I built my life in and the country I love, but it is being destroyed.

Labour swept to power after years of Conservative disarray, promising stability, competence and fairness.

What voters have received instead is scandal, incompetency and a Chancellor whose vision for economic growth seems rooted in punishing the very people who want Britain to succeed.

As someone who has invested, worked and contributed here for more than two decades, I have watched confidence drain at an alarming pace.

Britain once welcomed success and rewarded contribution; today its government treats aspiration with disdain.

The UK competes globally for talent and capital, and if other economies offer lower taxes and lighter regulation, entrepreneurs simply go elsewhere.

For Ms Reeves to blatantly lie about low business emigration and insult the electorate with her “bleating” comment makes a global embarrassment of the UK.

The biggest wealth creators have already left.

The process commenced after George Osborne knee-jerk reaction to Labour’s attacks on non-doms........

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