By James Chapman Warning: Britain's status as a free-market nation is at risk from 'the forces of pessimism', Chancellor George Osborne will claim today Britain's status as a free-market nation is at risk from ‘the forces of pessimism’ who are waging war on big business, George Osborne will claim today. An anti-business alliance of Labour and the ‘populist Right’ – a reference to Ukip – want to ‘pull up the drawbridge and shut Britain off from the world’, the Chancellor will say. ‘They want to constrain foreign investment in our economy, and deprive us of the British jobs that it has created in industries from car manufacturing to energy,’ he will tell the Confederation of British Industry.
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George Osborne will claim free market at risk from 'forces of pessimism'
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He will attack an anti-business alliance of Labour and the 'populist Right'
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They want to 'pull up the drawbridge and shut Britain off from the world'
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They also aspire to 'constrain foreign investment in economy, he will say
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Chancellor's comments to be made to Confederation of British Industry
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