In early April, serial entrepreneur Debbie Wosskow took the mic at a meeting of the UK government’s Women and Equalities Committee to talk about why “the UK is currently a pretty terrible place to be a female entrepreneur” — and why a government on a mission to drive growth should care about that.
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