CHIEF Minister Lyndon Trott met high-profile UK politicians in London this week.

Deputy Trott held meetings with Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Dr Vince Cable, members of his frontbench team of Shadow Ministers, and his senior economic advisers.

‘This was an excellent opportunity to brief the very influential Dr Cable and his team,’ said Deputy Trott.

‘It was an extremely positive meeting in which we were able to discuss a number of issues of mutual interest in great detail.

‘These included international financial regulation, the importance of a robust and co-ordinated response to the global downturn, and Guernsey’s recent ‘white-listing’ by the OECD.

‘It was a constructive session and Dr Cable left us in no doubt that as a result of the meeting he was much better informed about Guernsey.’

A series of further meetings included talks with Justice Secretary Jack Straw’s Conservative Shadow Dominic Grieve, a close political ally of Conservative leader David Cameron, the Shadow Justice Minister Eleanor Laing, a highly-respected Parliamentarian whose brief includes relationships between the Crown Dependencies and the UK; and David Gauke,the number two to Shadow Chancellor George Osborne in the Conservatives’ Treasury team.