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Britain will never be great again until we stop flogging our top companies to the US | Will Hutton

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The US has been putting America first for decades , writes Angus Hanton .

25% of British GDP is made up of sales of 1,256 US multinationals operating in Britain .

Hanton writes that the UK is so blind to the negative dimensions of loss of control from tax avoidance to being stripped of strategic technologies.

With more courage and readiness to put Britain first , we could now be the tech powerhouse of Europe with a dynamic economy and growing tax base.

Hanton urges that, to fight back, Britain must first stop the selloffs, for which an initial step is to distinguish between US direct investment that is beneficial (starting businesses here) and that which is destructive.

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71

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68

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English

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54

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