What was left included tax breaks for home improvements and fiscal incentives for companies to hire highlyqualifiedstaff, along with measures to boost energy efficiency and ease credit for small firms.
All sorts of businesses all over the world have good reason to be alarmed at the latest twists in the U.K. debate over the country's membership of EU. Many will already have doubts about investing in the U.K. because of its draconian new immigration laws which make it hard to bring in highly-qualified staff to make up for the U.K.'s chronic skill shortages.
An unusually high proportion of staff come from Teach First, a programme that sends highly-qualified graduates into challenging schools for at least two years.