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Rishi Sunak hosts PM Connect business event at Siemens Healthineers factory; ENGLAND: Oxfordshire: Eynsham: Siemens Healthineers factory: INT Rishi Sunak MP (Prime Minster), Jeremy Hunt MP (Chancellor) and Robert Courts MP (Witney) attends PM Connect Rishi Sunak MP (Prime Minster) addresses the audience SOT Um, but also we've now had nine months of growth in wages going faster than prices, which is very welcome. Energy bills coming down, mortgage rates starting to fall, consumer confidence returning. And also you're seeing businesses like yours being more confident about the future. Uh, just of months ago, the chancellor and I were up in Sunderland when Nissan announced a massive investment in the next generation of electric vehicles at their plant there, Jaguar, land Rover, exactly the same building New Gigafactories, Microsoft and Google expanding their footprint. And just this week we had a billion dollar investment and one of our largest technology startups, another billion dollars today from another company in our technology sector just showing the progress. We are making bit more venture capital investment in our country than France and Germany. - Hope you don't mind me saying that put together. But we also thanks to businesses like yours, have now overtaken France, Netherlands, Japan to become the third biggest export, a fourth biggest exporter in the world. Think about that. That's just happened in the last year or two. We're also now just overtaken France and the size of our manufacturing sector. And that's because of the dynamism of companies like yours. And when I think of, I talk to global investors, why, why are you choosing the uk? What is it that is driving you to make those decisions? It's very simple. First and foremost, it's about all of you. It's about the incredible experience, talents, ingenuity of all of you. What you bring to the table that they say to me time and time again is unmatched wherever they go in the world. And that'...