Steph McGovern

she hosted this investors round table there and had like key players in the investment world, like Citigroup and BNY Mellon.

And also, you know, big names in business like Lockheed Martin, you're the world's largest defense contractor.

But what struck me about that trip is obviously we see politicians do this all the time.

They go and try and, you know, show our wares and get people to buy into us.

But

And you'll understand why I found this so interesting in my next sentence, which is from a northeast perspective, the only regional mayor she took with her was our local mayor, Kim McGuinness.

Now, that I have found really interesting because.

Kim McGuinness is on a mission to try and get more foreign investment into this area.

And she's been in Japan and doing all these, you know, different visits and things.

And there are already some, you know, really strong relationships between the North East and the US.

You know, I mentioned Lockheed Martin and they're actually, they're involved with the skills, a space skills centre at Northumbria University here.

But I just found it interesting that that space,

is the only mayor that Rachel Reeves took with her because another in parallel to that, there was an event I was at number 11 recently, which was for female founders or women who sell businesses.

And it was a northeast based one.

And apparently nothing like that had ever happened at the number 11 before.

So there had never been so many women, business women in number 11 at that point.

I think it was about 50, 60 of us in total.

And again, but it was interesting that it was the North East, which is the first one to get this, you know, exclusive visit of networking and everything else.

And this big promise from Rachel that she's going to do all these things to help the North East, whether they happen or not, I don't know.

But it does feel, I feel...