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BRC responds to shadow chancellor’s business rates promise

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Shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride has promised to abolish business rates for high street shops and pubs if the Conservative Party wins the next election. The plans were unveiled during the party’s conference in Manchester, where Stride criticised the “burden of Labour’s tax rises”. He…

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