During a period of international turmoil, the City remains a reliable and attractive global financial centre for investment. At this key juncture, there is a huge opportunity for the United Kingdom to step up as a trusted partner, with trade, investment, ideas and financial and professional services expertise flowing freely between our nations.

A missing part of the jigsaw, is our pension funds. The Mansion House Accord seeks to right this problem – a commitment from 17 of our largest workplace pension providers to allocate 10 per cent of default defined contribution funds to alternative investments by 2030; unlocking up to £100bn of investment, including for tech businesses, helping them to start, scale and succeed.

Seventeen major UK pension schemes have united under the Mansion House Accord to invest 10 per cent of their default funds into private markets, with half allocated to the UK, marking a bold industry-led shift toward using long-term capital to drive national growth.

Discussing the launch of the Mansion House Accord on Bloomberg.

It’s not just the right thing to do, embracing neurodiversity is the key to unlocking the full potential of our workforce.

Looking beyond our traditional trading partners and engaging with our Commonwealth connections.

By employing veterans and releasing their employees to serve, companies can ensure they are attracting and developing highly skilled people whose service contributes to the security of our nation and, in turn, the success of our great City.

If you want to boost UK defence, support your workers joining the Army’s Reserve Forces.

Franklin Roosevelt knew tariffs were the road to ruin. But the UK still has many opportunities to strengthen ties with trade partners like India.

The Government’s revised tone about the UK’s economic prospects has been music to the ears of my peers in the City.

London boasts a wealth of advantages over our international peers, including a world-class equity capital market. However, it is difficult to escape the coverage that it has been a tough old year for the UK public markets.

As Lord Mayor, I see my job as being cheerleader-in-chief for the UK’s financial and professional services sector, harnessing that same City-wide ambition we saw at the weekend while extolling our strengths to the world and constructively encouraging the team back home.