Good morning, everyone. Thank you so much. Lovely welcome there. I’m just looking around the room and I see a lot of faces who’ve been on this journey with me for a long time. Many of you, you know who you all are. You’ve probably got a feeling of déjà vu, don’t you? You’ve probably got that, but don’t have that, because this time we’re going to do it, right. We’re going to do it. You don’t take anything on without doing it, do you, Louise? So let’s make sure we do. And lots of new faces as well. Fantastic to be with you all this morning. I was going to speak from notes, but for the r…
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Thank you, everybody. I cannot tell you what a proud moment this is. I think this might be the best day of my life. I’m not joking. I know you think I am, but I’m not. Things are just completely coming full circle here, for me to be here with you all in the heart of Manchester this Friday morning at the end of a fairly big week is just everything to me. Because it’s almost exactly 35 years since I left this city as a recently graduated young man, couldn’t find a job in the city. It was in a pretty bad place at that time, it’s fair to say. The ’80s turned into the ’90s. There wasn’t much. A…
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