PM launches Liverpool’s International Business Festival
DAVID Cameron has launched the International Festival for Business 2014, which will take place in Liverpool and Wirral next summer.
The 61-day event, which is expected to attract 250,000 visitors from around the world, hopes to attract £100m of inward investment to the city region.
Mr Cameron launched the event in the city on Thursday and said: “”We are in a global race in our world today, a race in which Liverpool is not just competing with Barcelona and Hamburg, you’re competing with Beijing and Jakarta. Some countries will make it and others will fall behind, and I am determined that Britain, and cities like Liverpool, will make it.
“If 2012 showed us anything, it showed us that we can achieve great things in this country – we can achieve our personal best, go for gold, put on a show that will amaze and dazzle the world. That is what we did in 2012 and that is what I know you will do in 2014.”
Mr Cameron, who has been pressed by Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson to look again at the local authority spending cuts town halls in the North are facing, said the international festival was an “absolutely excellent idea” and an initiative he is pleased to fully support.
Mayor Anderson commented: “We are delighted to welcome the Prime Minister to Liverpool to join the launch of the countdown to the International Festival for Business 2014.
“Our city is no stranger to spectacle and has proved over the last few years its first class ability to host major global events.
“We look forward to showing the world the very best of Liverpool and the UK and what’s more, the very best in international business.”
With plans for the International Festival for Business 2014 already under way, Liverpool will this year host Accelerate 2013 – a three-day celebration of the very best in fast-growth business, which will take place from 26-28 June 2013.
