Title: Britain is facing a “retirement cliff” in engineering - BBC News
Headings: Britain is facing a “retirement cliff” in engineering
Britain is facing a “retirement cliff” in engineering
Business embassy
Immigration debate
Victorian ambition
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Content: Lord Heseltine, now an economic advisor to Number 10 as well as still closely involved in the Haymarket Group publisher he founded, went as far as to declare UKIP "over" following their Newark defeat. The murmur of disbelief that washed through the hall as he said it suggested that many in the audience were not convinced. Victorian ambition
David Cameron did a short turn - claiming that Britain "was back". He agreed that Europe needed to reform and that the people who ran the EU needed to "understand the need for change". It was a relatively oblique message to the European Commission and Jean-Claude Juncker, the chain-smoking former prime minister of Luxembourg, who is the leading candidate to become the next head of the EC. That Mr Cameron's next stop after the festival was Sweden and a vital meeting with Angela Merkel will not have been lost on anyone. The International Festival for Business is centred on the ornate St George's Hall in Liverpool, built in 1841 as a statement to Liverpool's ambition to be one of the most significant trading ports in the world. The architecture historian Nikolaus Pevsner described the hall as one of the most important neo-classical buildings in the country. Victorian Liverpool said it stood for "art, science, fortitude and justice". Given the grinding poverty of the time such lofty ideals were not always fulfilled.