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Peter Evans

Peter Evans: The government's £375m tech fund looks flawed from the start

In the now impossibly tranquil-seeming days of the early 2010s, David Cameron’s coalition government became obsessed with Silicon Valley. Although the reverberations from the 2008 financial crisis were still being felt, it was possible in a world before Brexit and coronavirus for politicians to fixate on something as trivial as technology start-ups and not be consumed by criticism.

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