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Arguably you'd expect our government to campaign against restrictions on financial vehicles given how much the finance sector contributes to the economy.
Using the FT stats, and probably bad maths, the amount the "wealth management" sector contributes to UK GDP is around 0.0015% (steel is 0.1% - 66x more). It's obviously impossible to know how much taxes are lost due to these things, but HMRC said a couple of years ago that it was over £35 billion - more than 10x what is being added to the UK economy, by the industries own estimation.
Again, venal.
(Also worth noting that a domestic steel industry has importance beyond economic returns).
Arguably you'd expect our government to campaign against restrictions on financial vehicles given how much the finance sector contributes to the economy.
If they were campaigning to protect the steel industry it would have been viewed with far more acceptance.