UK, Johnson launches Global Britain at the Global Investment Summit in London
Boris Johnson and the new Minister of International Trade are hosting the Global Investment Summit in London, an event also sponsored by the British Crown. The point of Daniele Meloni
The Conservative party suspended all political activities after the tragic death of Sir David Amess . Naturally, however, the government's activity did not stop, and Boris Johnson and the new Minister of International Trade, Anne-Marie Trevelyan today host the Global Investment Summit in London, an event also sponsored by the British Crown.
The Prime Minister – who today also reassured Middle England by writing in the Sun about the £ 5,000 bonus for the replacement of old boilers – will announce during the summit contracts for almost £ 10 billion in the context of trade and the Revolution Green, with the aim of creating 30,000 new jobs in the UK. Money and jobs that will also allow him to carry out that "leveling up", rebalancing upwards, among all the regions of the country, which the top Tories have been talking about since the beginning of this legislature.
While Johnson yesterday welcomed the news of Ford's £ 200 million investment in the manufacture of new electric cars in the UK, today the focus will be on the creation of the new Investment Atlas within the Department of International trading. It is an online platform designed to help international investors identify where they can take advantage of the best opportunities in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The Atlas identifies 53 strategic and sustainable investments in the country in line with Johnson's Green Agenda announced this year. The new projects include – among others – wind turbines in Scotland, ports and manufacturing in Teesside and Humber, sustainable food delivery systems in Telford and zero-emission transport in Coventry.
The summit will open with Johnson attending a panel with Bill Gates on the energy transition and the role of private companies in the fight against climate change. In the meantime, there have already been the first announcements of massive investments on the sidelines of the Summit: the energy supply company Iberdrola has confirmed its intent to invest 6 billion pounds in East Anglia through Scottish Power, a system intended to supply wind energy. 2.7 million British homes and generating 7,000 jobs; the logistics company Prologis has announced an investment of 1.5 billion pounds to build carbon neutral warehouses in London, the South East and the Midlands, which will generate 14,000 jobs.
For the Tory government – which just the other day collected the extraordinary figure on "unicorns" in the United Kingdom, with 34 startups worth 1 million pounds out of the first 100 in the world coming from London and its surroundings – a new step in the realization of a Global Britain that maximizes the country's economic, financial and commercial potential.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/uk-johnson-forum-di-londra/ on Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:45:33 +0000.