It has been a year to remember – mostly for all the wrong reasons as far as the business world is concerned. Despite an environment that worsens by the day, the ACT’s annual dinner, held last month at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel, was notably free of doom and gloom. Its guest speaker, shadow foreign secretary and former Conservative Party leader William Hague, kept the tone for the evening informal and only turned to the dire state of the economy in the latter stages of his speech.
