 Fine minister, thank you. Thank you very much for coming along this morning. It's a great great pleasure to be here Thanks to electric city and to the of course of the here hunt hires and foundation It was 213 years ago that a group of thrilling thrusting young British scientists and technicians Created the Royal Institution and it was there men like Davey and Faraday made the breakthroughs Benzene sodium Electromagnetism that led to the very machines that generated electricity in the building in which we now sit that drove the industrial Revolution and made this city the heart of the greatest industrial and commercial empire the world has ever seen and It is in that tradition That we are today announcing this fantastic vision for a silicon roundabout hub Whether or not it will be the royal Silicon roundabout hub. I don't know if I'm interested in what you had to say about the role of the the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Prime Minister, but it will be a place where technicians and entrepreneurs can meet and ideas can Crosponate and where apprentices can be trained and where young people can get the skills They need to compete in what is already the biggest most thriving technical cluster in the whole of Europe Rowan tried to correct me on my fingers earlier on, but I have them right 24,000 it businesses already in London compared to a mere 15,500 in Paris We are watching we are watching that cluster. We are watching that cluster spread ever eastwards and I I really congratulate the government on picking this up very early on and yesterday we announced that BT is going into take a hundred thousand square feet in that great Olympic Media and broadcast center the IBC MPC the first a fantastic anchor tenant for what I think will be a an amazing venue for high-tech firms in in the east of London all we need is a Snappier name than IBC MPC. So I look to you brilliant moment to TECO drone something like that We need some we need some better name I think than IBC MPC and and last week when I was in India We had two Indian IT companies Nazara and smart play both announcing that they were choosing London And you can see why it's got all the it's got everything going for it's got that it's got the time zone It's got the language got more Michelin star restaurants in Paris. I think more or less It's certainly got certainly got twice as many bookshops as New York If you continue to use that old technology, it's got less rainfall than Rome It's got a a steadily declining crime rate by the way and all sorts of other wonders and Amenities brilliant view blue burly banker funded bicycles all sorts of things all sorts of wonder wonderful things about about London These days, but what it also has what this part of London has is What I can only call the vibe that we do not mean by the vibe the cafes nightlife All the things that you associate with with shawditch in this part of of the city and Day promise. I've got to be absolutely honest with you. I think there's much that you or I can do Frankly powerful where you are as politicians There's not much that you or I can do to affect the vibe in a positive way So what I mean is not much we can do about the vibe, but what we can do Will it just about what we can do What we even if we dance gangnam star what we can do What we can do is put in the infrastructure Put in the infrastructure and now I think you're doing absolutely the right thing. I congratulate you I congratulate everybody at number 10 Rohan people who have pursued this vision for so long We're putting in the tube lines that London needs of great news yesterday from the Chancellor about the northern line extension to new stations Abacity and nine-elms now that will mean a massive numbers of new homes and new jobs in our city We're going to put in new river crossings. We're going to sort out our aviation capacity issues rapidly and We're now I think by this investment Asserting London's lead as the tech capital of Europe if not of the world and I think it's a wonderful vision This will be This or I should say or something like it because this is you know very much an artist's impression This will be the cyclotron the cyclotron in which brilliant people of all ages will collide like subatomic particles if I if I've got my physics Right, which I probably haven't they will collide and they will produce the blinding flash that will lead to the billion pound Industries of the future and people ask why is it that London has never yet produced a Google or an Amazon or a Microsoft or whatever the answer is there is no reason why not it will happen and it will happen here Where was the first machine gun invented in which London borough? Who was it? Well, it was in Hatten garden He was in it. Where was the where was the first cash machine in the world? Enfield thank you very good. Where was the first television set the first cathode ray? Why was the first television set ever turned on? You know, that's absolutely right in a room above what is now the bar Italia in Frith Street in Soho Where was Charles Darwin where he when he when he first postulated the doctrine the theory of evolution the most important scientific Development the last 200 years. Where was he? Bromley of course when you go to Bromley meet the people of Bromley you understand why he he came up with The idea of natural selection and the spot was but more importantly Where was where was where was so Johnny I've where was so Johnny I've The the great great designer of the iPad and that machine that you're using there Where was so Johnny I've born and raised ladies and madam Does anybody know where he was in which London borough that I'm proud to represent? Well, he was born and raised in Romford ladies and when you go to Romford and you rely yourself be penetrated by the beauty of Romford you will understand how he of how he Johnny I formed the aesthetic that allowed him to develop some of the most beautiful machines that have ever been wielded by mankind That is the kind of thing that is going to be produced in this wonderful silicone roundabout I thank number 10 I thank the government for their vision and their support and good luck to all who are going to make it happen Thank you very much