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Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage,… Read more »

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John Walker is national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses
Comment: The burden on small businesses needs action now

Lord Young’s appointment as enterprise tsar is to be welcomed, but cuts in regulation and red tape cannot come soon enough for small businesses. By John Walker As we hear time and time again, small businesses truly are the backbone of our economy employing 60 per cent of the private sector workforce and providing 50… Read more »

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PM wants to reduce burdens on small businesses
Thatcher minister handed SME review

By politics.co.uk staff David Cameron has tasked a former Thatcher minister with reassessing the government’s relationship with small and medium-sized businesses, acknowledging “there is so much more we need to do”. David Young, who served as Margaret Thatcher’s trade and industry secretary from 1987 to 1989, will deliver a “brutally honest” report on successive government’s… Read more »