It’s a great pleasure to be here with you here in the City of London.

It’s a place where 2,000-year-old historical monuments stand alongside modern skyscrapers.

But before I address the present, I want to say something about the past.

The road we’re on right now was one of the first ever streets in London to be gaslit - and I’m not lying about that.

St. Helen’s Church, which is just behind us, is where Shakespeare lived and worked.

Perhaps one of you here today is a potential playwright, and you’ve been looking for inspiration for a Security Minister character you’re writing.

Well don’t worry, I’m not going to break into a one-act rendition of Hamlet; I’d like to focus today, on my remarks on deterring malicious actors, rather than becoming one myself.

In fact, Bishopsgate gets its

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