Interview with: The Financial Times

Read the article on the FT in full here.

British companies need to take more risks investing abroad, according to the Lord Mayor of the City of London, who said he was “haranguing” bosses to seize opportunities in booming overseas economies.

Alastair King told the Financial Times on a visit to Mumbai that overly cautious UK financial and legal firms needed to “get on with it” and do “large amounts of business with dynamic, growing markets, such as India”.

“It’s going to be a tough set of negotiations,” King said of the talks. “I’ve got every confidence in the negotiators to try and thrash out [a deal], but I don’t think there’s any desire to come up with a free trade agreement for the sake of a FTA.”