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May 2023
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My Friend 'Rishi': Zelenskiy Back in Bri...

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledges more weapons for Ukraine as Volodymyr Zelenskiy visits the UK. Bloomberg's EMEA News Director Rosalind Matheson discusses what happens next in the war. Plus the struggle for investment: as the Secretary of State for Science and Technology Chloe Smith tells us exclusively about the government's £100m investment in UK research and science facilities, we hear from both the UK's youngest billionaire and a partner at a leading corporate restructuring practice about whether Britain is still a good place to fund new ventures. Hosted by Caroline Hepker, Lizzy Burden, and Yuan Potts 

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