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By Matthew Lesh Every government promises to cut red tape but ends up adding more. The only way to break the cycle is to stop listening to nice sounding arguments, says Matthew Lesh Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt did not mince words at this week’s International Investment Summit. “Maybe you need a minister of anti-regulation?” Schmidt said to Prime Minister Keir Starmer on stage, “the cost of capital and the delay is killing you”. Starmer even agreed in his keynote speech, promising to “rip out the bureaucracy that blocks investment” to galvanise growth. But, for those whose memory is longer than a…

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