Lord Heseltine received the freedom of the City of Liverpool, on the day that the creation of thousands of jobs was announced. But all the main political parties seem to be fighting over the Heseltine inheritance of industrial activism.
My report yesterday on the GDP figures and Krishnan’s rather robust interview of the Chief Secretary of the Treasury has elicited some viewer feedback, and not just about my hard hat. Some correspondents felt we were talking down the economy by “arbitrarily” looking at the flat economy since the end of September, rather than 0.5 per cent growth in Q1 of this year.
“David Cameron? Who is he? Who’s even heard of William Hague? How dare they talk about Egypt like that? Who do they think they are? ” The Egyptian Foreign Ministry official was scornful
It’s a new era for defence as the French and the British sign a co-operation declaration. But are they making the pact for the same reasons? Lindsey Hilsum does not think so.
Say what you will, they’ve certainly been lucky with the weather where Hyde Park’s doing a good job of living up to still, sunny, Bellahouston Park, in Glasgow, on Thursday.
I’m in India as Britain mounts the mother of all economic charm offensives. Today I was in the biggest control room for British manufacturing in the world. And that room is on the fourth floor in age old building in Mumbai. Bombay House has been the home since 1927 for Tata & Sons, parent company…
Jon Snow
News this morning that Mercedes Benz is to launch an aggressive sales drive in India to ‘capture the luxury sports car’ end of the automobile market.
