Conservatives have long pressed for Britain to be exempted from the European Working Time Directive and other laws they see as harming Britain's economic competitiveness.

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This results in a level of enthusiasm for education and entrepreneurship that you would be hard pressed to find in the West at this time.

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Halsne said he pressed for details at that time, but the man didn't want any information from him to be used then in a news story.

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