UK foreign secretary David Lammy has met top British and Japanese executives in London, ahead of travelling with UK trade secretary Jonathan Reynolds to Tokyo next week to deepen bilateral economic links.
Senior business figures from BP, Toyota, Hitachi Rail, Mitsubishi Estate and Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance were among attendees at a breakfast roundtable on Tuesday at 1 Carlton Gardens, the Georgian mansion that is Lammy’s official residence in Westminster.
Bilateral trade between the two nations is worth £27bn, with more than 1,000 Japanese companies operating in the UK and supporting 160,000 jobs, according to the British government.
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