Rebirth of England.

By the time Barron returned to London, the impact of the News Corp. "eavesdropping scandal" had been brought under control.

Of course, it was far from eliminated. It was just that News Corporation announced the permanent closure of "News of the World" and several News Corporation executives, including News International CEO Rebecca Brooks, announced their resignations. , and after being investigated, the destructive power of this incident on News Corporation in the UK was able to be controlled within a certain range.

This has a lot to do with the tacit understanding Barron and Murdoch formed after part of the deal was completed - so that after Murdoch's connections and activities, the British government won't be dissatisfied even after it achieved some "results." He chased and beat him fiercely.

It can be said that a new hot spot will always appear to replace the old one.

It can be said that the thing that the British media is most concerned about during this period is no longer the News Corporation's "eavesdropping scandal". What occupies more pages in many newspapers is the news about the breakup of Prince William and Kaiser...

The British media broke the news of the two's breakup on April 4. After that, countless reporters surrounded Cather's residence on Oxford Street.

According to media reports, at 16: a.m. on the th, Cather’s brother James drove with her from her parents’ home back to Cather’s apartment in London.

Afterward, Cather trimmed her hair, put on a pair of gold earrings, and walked out of the house with a tennis racket.

At that time, Keizer smiled and walked directly to the paparazzi waiting at the door.

Then, the two drove back to their parents' tennis court to play.

A source pointed out: "Kather has many close and trusted friends, so if she wanted to avoid the media, it would be no problem."

But Cather clearly didn't want that.

Just like on the evening of the 16th, a close friend of Cather revealed:

"Cather felt running away was the worst option. She didn't want people to think she was sad and couldn't face reality. If she left now, people don't know what conclusions people would draw. Cather is a strong girl and has a family. Support, she doesn’t need people’s pity.”

……

"Due to the recent situation, I gave Cather two weeks of leave to let her adjust her mood first..."

Barron first met Julia Moore. Harrods, where Cather worked, was owned by the Devonshire Family Trust. Julia also served as the chairman of Harrods.

Of course, the meeting between the two was not that formal. Their conversation took place on the bed of Yulia’s residence...

"As for the media who come to the store for interviews, we have already dealt with it. By the way, Kaiser mentioned that he wants to meet you."

Yulia didn't know about Cather's past with Barron - after all, it was just a casual encounter at best.

Because Barron had a good relationship with William and had arranged a job for Cather in Harrods Department Store, Yulia just casually mentioned Cather's desire to see Barron without thinking too much about it. It was the other party who wanted to talk about William through Barron.

"Recently, the media's attention has been on her. It's better to wait until this matter cools down a bit before talking about it."

Yulia also believed what Barron said:

"Nowadays, many gloating reports are just a joke. It's best not to get too involved and wait to arrange a quiet place to meet."

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October 4th, Thursday.

Brown attended the launch of London Tech City in East London.

The Prime Minister said that he will vigorously promote Britain's scientific and technological innovation capabilities, and the government will provide preferential policies to support companies and start-ups in science and technology cities.

Initially, the Digital Future Investment Company under the Caesar Fund bought a dilapidated warehouse in Shoreditch, East London, and after tearing it down, built a 15-story Digital Future Building. At that time, in addition to DailyVedio settling here, the Digital Future Building It has also become an incubation park for technology projects.

Now, DailyVedio has built a new headquarters building next to the Digital Future Building, and the Digital Future Building has completely become an incubation park, providing some start-up companies with initial development space with low rent and investment support.

In addition, Klarna Pay also moved its headquarters here from Sweden.

Argos Retail Group's e-commerce business has also built a R&D and operations center nearby.

It can be said that Shoreditch at this time has been very different from the original scene of the dilapidated old town. Many new buildings continue to appear, showing a vibrant scene.

It can be said that the participation of Digital Future Investment Company and related Internet companies has boosted the development of this area.

Therefore, after seeing the current results, in order to help make the original industrial cluster larger, the Brown government issued a plan to support the development of "Mini Silicon Valley", building East London into a high-tech industrial center, named "London Tech city".

The government will invest more than £5 million to support the development of technology cities, formulate preferential policies and ensure that part of the space in new buildings is used as incubation areas.

At present, large companies including Cisco, Intel, Qualcomm, Woaw, Google and other companies will soon start to move in, and financial institutions such as Barclays Bank will also provide special financing services for start-up companies.

In the original time and space, London Technology City was not launched until 2010, mainly due to the promotion of Cameron, who came to power later, and Johnson, the mayor of London at the time.

But now with Barron behind him, this Science and Technology City project also received Brown’s support in advance.

After attending the launch event of Tech City, Brown also met with Barron.

In this meeting, he still talked about the topic he had mentioned before, that is, he hopes to promote more industries to land in the UK to enhance the industrial capabilities of the UK and improve the hollowing out of its industries.

Generally speaking, if the proportion of manufacturing industry in GDP is less than 15%, it can be regarded as industrial hollowing out. According to 2006 data, the added value of manufacturing industry in Germany accounted for 20.66% of GDP, the EU region accounted for 15.81%, and the UK only accounted for 10.04% of GDP. is %!

Outside the EU, China is 32.45%, Japan is 21.4%, and the United States is 12.99%...

It can be clearly seen that both the UK and the US are facing industrial hollowing out, especially the UK.

What Britain and the United States have in common is that they have developed financial industries, mature markets, and strong capital.

And if financial capital is too strong, it will crowd out the capital of the real industry. In addition, the financial industry can make money quickly, which makes the citizens of the two countries who are accustomed to making quick money unwilling to work hard in manufacturing.

On the contrary, the financial capital strength of China, Germany and Japan is not that strong, and Germany has always been very cautious about the financial industry.

In Germany, finance and real estate are not doing much, and the only way out is through entities and scientific research - at least that's the case so far.

And the trend of sluggish manufacturing in the UK continues. In Barron's previous life, by 2018, the added value of the UK's manufacturing industry accounted for only 8.83% of GDP...

Among the major powers in the world, it ranks last...

It can be said that John Bull is quite weak.

After all, Brown has been the finance minister for nine years. In his position as prime minister, he also hopes to make a difference, and therefore also hopes to change the current situation to a certain extent.