The Diplomat
People, composure and the difficult conversation held well.
Gerry Grimstone reads clearly as The Diplomat, a leader whose career has been built on moving fluidly between the state and the market and making each legible to the other.
“It's a difference driven by the electoral cycle in Western democracies. The Chinese government is focused almost entirely at the moment on twenty forty nine. Why 2049?”
“We thought they should be maintained on the stock market. It was a good way then of comparing it, the customers would have had a say. I think and I have to say this with due respect to the people doing it because of weak regulation.”
“I'm doing the whole thing. Yes, it is almost as simple as that. It is almost as simple as that. And also, you had to go right back to the policymaking in Whitehall departments. It used to make me laugh because you would see ministers bidding for funds and they would. And then I would say to them, how?”
“What was your special secret that enabled you to do that? Very interesting. So how does Britain regain that the ability to punch above its weight? We have to use our entrepreneurialism. We have to use the academic skills which come out of our universities. We have to use our soft power, but we have to use it consistently.”
Pull up a Chair with Bina Mehta: “In conversation with Bina Mehta, Chair, KPMG UK”
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