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HNWIs ‘would be prepared to pay a premium for staying in the UK’
'It's absolutely true that those with the broadest shoulders should bear the greatest burden,' says lobbyist Leslie McLeod-Miller of Foreign Investors for Britain. 'But those with the broadest shoulders normally also have the longest legs, and they are highly mobile.'
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