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...Roger Barker, head of policy at lobby group the Institute of Directors, said its members would see a tax rise as “a very negative step”....
...Thomas Singlehurst, an analyst at Citi, said “it feels like WPP is being held to account” by the market against the “high benchmarks” for the quarter set by other agency holding groups....
...Roger Barker, head of policy at the Institute of Directors, a professional body that had supported the reforms, said the tax cuts needed to be affordable....
...Roger Barker, head of policy at the Institute of Directors, which supports cuts to national insurance, business rates and corporation tax, said: “Business also wants to see the economy carefully managed....
...Thomas Rabe, chief executive of Bertelsmann, casts it as part of a push to create “local language champions” in Europe, which have the scale and unique content that will allow them to stand their ground...
...Barker declined to comment....
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