You should be able to start a business and grow a business wherever you are.

If you want to come to London or another city in the UK, great.

You shouldn't feel you have to come to London or another city to be able to do that.

You should be able to do that wherever. When social media was starting to proliferate, the world didn't really do a lot at that time.

And so we're trying to put the gene back in the bottle, which is always difficult to do.

We're not in a place that we're going to get into a subsidy race. What we're doing is we are

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Hello and welcome to the UKTN podcast, a weekly chat with the founders of some of the UK's

high-growth tech companies and other key stakeholders. In this series, we'll be exploring what

entrepreneurship looks like in the UK right now, as well as getting tips from some of our

most innovative business leaders

and discussing the hot topics in the tech world. And I'm joined today by Paul Scully, the Minister

for London and the Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Tech and the Digital Economy.

Big welcome to you, Paul. Hi there. Good to be here. Now, first of all, why don't you sort of set out what you see as your

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