With owner Walgreens' sale to another private equity owner, the best that can be hoped is that Boots is set free without being loaded with debt, as soon as possible.
When Rachel Reeves raised employers' National Insurance in her first Budget last October, she said it was 'to raise the revenues required to fund our public services and to restore economic stability…
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Labour, which campaigned on a pledge to promote growth, has created a new era of 'stagflation' - a devastating combination of a flatlining economy and surging prices.
In Donald Trump's The Art Of The Deal, he wrote: 'The worst thing you can possibly do is seem desperate.' Never has this been more evident than over the past ten days in his approach to tariffs.
ALEX BRUMMER: There can be no greater example of Labour's naive attitude to growth and business than its refusal to back an investment on Merseyside by British pharmaceutical pioneer AstraZeneca.