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Bristol24/7 is an independent website, magazine and community interest company, offering news, comment and features for the city of Bristol. As of 2023 it had a print circulation of 20,000, with, on …
Bristol24/7 is an independent website, magazine and community interest company, offering news, comment and features for the city of Bristol. As of 2023 it had a print circulation of 20,000, with, on average, 250,000 unique monthly visitors to its website.
However, experience shows these claims do not stack up. Starting with Bowles’ fantastical claims about direct job creation numbers – the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has stated that all ten free ports proposed for the UK would only lead to 80,000 news jobs across the country – can we really believe that 50,000 of these would be in Bristol?
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And in any case, previous UK experience has shown that free ports fail to deliver job creation on a significant scale. As the Centre for Cities highlights, ...