Last week's story on business leaders blaming Foreign & Commonwealth Office travel advice for jeopardising their chances of winning work in Libya has provoked a typically robust response from former environment minister John Gummer. As readers will know, British Expertise chief executive Graham Hand told Building that official advice not to travel to the country was preventing firms from winning work, a point of view that appears to have surprised the equally outspoken Gummer, now a member of the House of Lords. "I think the FCO should be more adventurous but what kind of wet businessman is it who waits for an all clear from the UK government?" the Tory peer responded scornfully. "He who risks wins!"
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