Good evening ladies and gentlemen, Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress. I would like to start by thanking Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček for choosing London as the venue for this prestigious event marking the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution.

Liz Truss, South West Norfolk Conservative Parliamentary candidate and Secretary of State for Trade, this week visited Fotolec Technologies Ltd in Thetford. The company specialise in lighting solutions and coatings for industry.

This week the Prime Minister has announced plans to allow fruit and vegetable farmers to hire up to 10,000 workers from outside the EU. Farmers from across South West Norfolk have been pressing the government for an expansion of the current scheme of 2500 in 2019, to be increased.

One of the greatest boons of Brexit is that we are going to take back control of our future.

We will decide what regulations we want, we will decide how we want our economy to be run and we will decide how we want to run our public services.

The NHS is the nation’s proudest and most beloved institution. For more than 70 years, it has been there for all of us, through the highs and lows, from cradle to grave – we all have a personal connection in some way.

Returning for the city where she spent several years of her childhood, attending Roundhay School and “hanging around in Roundhay Park”, she yesterday toured local businesses extolling the opportunities for post-Brexit global trade.

Super Saturday could have been the day MPs finally implemented the referendum result, opening the door to a bright new future for our country.

Since taking on the role of International Trade Secretary I have strived to set out my vision for future trade.

I believe in free trade and breaking down barriers to give people in Britain and across the world the opportunity and freedom to get on in life.

This is an issue that I have been passionate about since I was a girl and I was presented with a ‘Junior Air Hostess’ badge on the plane by KLM and my brothers were given ‘Junior Pilot Badges’ and I thought “that is unfair” and that is what radicalised me.

The Department for Transport this week published their Autumn Update of rail enhancements programmes. Within the document,  the Ely Area Enhancement Capacity has progressed through as a scheme to develop.