Earlier this summer, I joined 250 leaders from business, politics and culture on the UK’s largest-ever trade mission to the United States. Officially, it was called Greater Together LA. Unofficially, the aim was to do deals and remind everyone this wonderful, funny little island has still got it.
The biggest surprise wasn’t what I learned about the way America does business. It was what it helped me remember about Britain.
In conversation after conversation — including on the British Airways charter flight over — one thing became obvious: we’ve lost sight of everything that’s great about this country.
In Britain,…
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