One month ahead of the UK’s annual Budget announcement, the country’s tech ecosystem has laid out its demands for the coming year, in what some have called a “make or break” moment for its relationship with the government.
UK startups lay out demands for ‘make or break’ Budget
Lobby groups pitch greater investment and fewer restrictions ahead of crunch announcement
Martin Coulter and Kai Nicol-Schwarz
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Kai Nicol-Schwarz was a senior reporter at Sifted. He covered AI and UK tech.

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