Just Nine of Starmer’s 54 China ‘Business Delegates’ Come from Financial Services – Guido Fawkes

Nearly a quarter of Starmer’s ‘business delegation’ to China is made up of representatives from theatres, orchestras, or museums. This is supposed to be a trip which will generate “a consistent, pragmatic partnership with China” and “make the UK better off“. For some reason, Labour’s West Midlands mayor Richard Parker got a seat on the plane, while the Chancellor of the Exchequer had to stay behind to watch a calamitous DPMQs. Only nine people working in financial services made the cut…

The government’s press release claims this esteemed business delegation is made up of ” nearly 60 British businesses and cultural organisations“. If you subtract the two mid-level politicians on the list, you end up with 52. Yes, rounding errors to the tune of several billion are commonplace in Whitehall, but that’s pushing it a bit in the real world…

See the full travelling circus below…

1.      Aberdeen Group – Jason Windsor

2.      AngloAmerican – Stuart Chambers

3.      Airbus – John Harrison

4.      Arup – Jerome Frost

5.      AstraZeneca – Pascal Soriot

6.      Baker McKenzie – Sunny Mann

7.      Barclays – Angela Liu

8.      Birmingham Museums Trust – Sara Wajid

9.      Bridgepoint Group – Tim Score

10.  British Airways – Colm Lacy

11.  Brompton Bikes – William Butler-Adams

12.  Ceres Power – Warren Finegold

13.  China Britain Business Council – Sebastian Wood

14.  Chucklefish – Donna Orlowski

15.  Clifford Chance – Adrian Cartwright

16.  CVC – Robert Lucas

17.  Edinburgh International Book Festival – Jenny Niven

18.  Feng Ling Productions- Farooq Chaudhry

19.  Freshfields – Georgia Dawson

20.  GSK – Sir Jonathon Symonds

21.  Haleon – Brian McNamara

22.  Halle – David Butcher

23.  Heatherwick – Craig Miller

24.  HSBC – Brendan Nelson

25.  Holland & Barrett – Anthony Houghton

26.  Jaguar Land Rover – Pathamadai Balaji

27.  KPMG – Melissa Geiger

28.  Mayor of West Midlands – Richard Parker

29.  Lady Mayor of the City of London – Susan Langley

30.  Liberty London – Andrea Petochi

31.  FTSE Russell – Fiona Bassett

32.  McLaren – Nicholas Collins

33.  National Galleries of Scotland – Anne Lyden

34.  National Museums Liverpool – Laura Pye

35.  National Theatre – Kate Varah

36.  Natural History Museum – Doug Gurr

37.  North East Museums – Keith Merrin

38.  Octopus Energy – Greg Jackson

39.  Pearson – Omar Abbosh

40.  Prudential plc – Anil Wadhwani

41.  PwC – Marco Amitrano

42.  Relx – YS Chi

43.  Royal Museums Greenwich – Paddy Rogers

44.  Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Sarah Bardwell

45.  Royal Shakespeare Company – Daniel Evans

46.  Schroders – Richard Oldfield

47.   Science Museum Group – Shri Mukundagiri

48.  Standard Chartered – William Winters

49.  Table Tennis England – Sally Lockyer

50.  USTWO Games – Maria Sayans

51.  V&A Museum – Timothy Reeve

52.  Visit Britain – Patricia Yates

53.  World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association – Jason Ferguson

54.  8 lions – Jiella Esmat