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THREATS of an investment strike by big business must not be allowed to hold the government hostage, a leading left MP warned yesterday.

Jon Trickett was responding to reports that global finance is not buying British government debt because of the parlous state of the economy.

He said: “Labour should not be a prisoner of fiscal orthodoxy. 

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