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Phil Thornton is lead consultant at Clarity Economics, a consultancy and freelance writing company he set up after a 15-year career as a business journalist for newspapers and news agencies. Most recently Phil was Economics Correspondent at The Independent between 1999 and 2007. He has also been Transport Correspondent, Business News Editor and Night Editor at The Independent and Business Editor at the Press Association. In 2007 he won the title of print Journalist of the Year in the WorkWorld Media Awards run by the Work Foundation.

Phil Thornton

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