Mark Franklin

If you see the major central banks either collectively raise rates or signal that rate hikes are potentially on the table in the case of the Fed, that will ultimately lead to a tightening of financial conditions and investors will be forced to sort of revert back to fundamentals and try to ascertain which parts of the equity market still have potential upside, even if policy is no longer overall supportive.

If you see the major central banks either collectively raise rates or signal that rate hikes are potentially on the table in the case of the Fed, that will ultimately lead to a tightening of financial conditions and investors will be forced to sort of revert back to fundamentals and try to ascertain which parts of the equity market still have potential upside, even if policy is no longer overall supportive.

I think one of the things I've most valued is the British public's appetite for pragmatism.

And I think that is the defining philosophy for this government.

We want the best security trust for the British public when it comes to AI.

We will pursue the mechanisms that make that deliver rather than looking obsessively at the mechanism for how we get there.