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Will the last wealthy person leaving the UK please turn out the light?

As many as 600,000 people are expected to leave the UK in 2010, says a leading tax expert. Many of them will be wealthy.

Predictions of a flight of wealth capital from the UK following the election of its coalition government are becoming dire.

Ronnie Ludwig, a partner at accountants Saffery Champness, reckons that more than 600,000 people will leave the country in 2010. He thinks many of them will be middle class professionals and wealthy business owners or, as he calls them, "wealth creators".

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