Are the super-rich leaving London? Tax reforms could spur wealth exodus.
'Britain's just not a good place to do business anymore,' Mullins said in an interview, during a brief stopover in a country he now calls his former home. He now splits his time between two sun-soaked destinations: Spain and Dubai.
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