Spring Budget: Chancellor touts plans to make UK a 'science and tech superpower'

James Murray
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Spring Budget: Chancellor touts plans to make UK a 'science and tech superpower'

Jeremy Hunt to use Budget address to ramp up clean energy investment and push back against 'narrative of decline', but campaigners fear government is failing to do enough to lift barriers to green investment

Jeremy Hunt is tomorrow expected to showcase the government's plans to "harness British ingenuity to make us a science and tech superpower", as he prepares to deliver a Spring Budget designed to drive...

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