That bet is going to take a while to pay off, but I think we should be applauding their willingness to try to look ahead, because for a lot of years people said the companies wouldn't look ahead, they always tried to fight the future.

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"I don't try and tell the Liberals what they should do and I don't think they should try and tell us what we should do, " she said.

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"Now, I think we should get together with our partners and try and construct a new kind of European Union and that would be in the interests of everyone".

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