This is the 1733 to Manchester Piccadilly, calling at,

thank the team over email for a great meeting.

Finally, close your laptop.

Crack open that novel your MD recommended.

Try to read a page, sigh and close it.

Scroll through cap memes instead instead there's always tomorrow business travel by train is time

well spent with the vanti west coast welcome to the eastern city the walkie talkie the gherkin

leaden hall market is where the old meets the new where pioneers have made things happen for 2,000 years.

It's where diverse minds help our society today and enable a sustainable tomorrow,

where Michelin Star Food meets London's most iconic viewing galleries.

Here, life blends seamlessly with work.

This is the community that drives change. Search, E- seamlessly with work.

This is the community that drives change.

Search Eastern City.

From the Times and the Sunday times, this is the story.

I'm Manvine Rana.

I remember last June being stood in a pub garden in Southwark with a senior member of Keir Starmers' team. It was about 10 days before the general election and Labor's

HQ being a short walk from Times

HQ, we did a lot of business in that period. And one conversation that sticks in my mind is the

conversation I had with this senior member of Keir Starmes team about the second term, Labor's second

term. And then it sort of felt inevitable that that was the path we were on.

For all the sort of fevered talk and excited conversations I was having

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