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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s finance minister George Osborne said the government would support a possible takeover of pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca by U.S. drugmaker Pfizer provided such a deal delivered jobs for Britons.
“Our sole interest here is in securing good jobs in Britain, good manufacturing jobs, good science jobs,” Osborne said when asked by reporters about a possible deal.
“That’s what I’m interested in and we’ll support any arrangement that delivers that for Britain,” he said.
(Reporting by William James, editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
