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How has the business and economic sort
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of landscape in the UK changed?
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>> Globally, it's completely different. I
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mean, the city's a totally different
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place from where it was 30 or 40 years
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ago. Very, very different indeed. A bit
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less fun in some cases. There's a bit
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less boozing going on. Would you like to
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see a return to those days? Well, I'm
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But look, I mean, the city is still
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fulfilling the the function that it has
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been for 3 400 years. You know, it's a
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place where investors come together with
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people who require capital. Sometimes
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those are companies, sometimes those are
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>> Very briefly, are you optimistic about
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the future? If you're talking about the
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few months, possibly not. But over the
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longer term, yeah, most definitely.