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"His speech made many references to the need for flexibility in the labour market but did not at any point acknowledge that people who work for themselves on a freelance basis are a key source of that flexibility.
"Freelancers make an annual contribution to the UK's GDP of £100 billion. They are a highly skilled, highly flexible workforce. The Prime Minister spoke repeatedly of the desirability of empowering individuals and improving the quality of work yet failed to acknowledge that people who chose to freelance represent the best example of empowered workers who are extremely satisfied in their work."
Second snub
PCG says it is the second snub this week from the Government after the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, told a committee of MPs that he had raised tax for small firms in order to counter East European scams.
Deputy Chairman of PCG Chris Bryce said: "This is very disappointing. Not only do we have a Prime Minister who fails to acknowledge the millions of people in this country who chose to be neither employees nor employers, we also have his heir apparent prepared to attack the majority of decent, hard working people rather than deal with the particular issue of some Eastern European tax fiddles."
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