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The Prime Minister's technology adviser said Britain was backing entrepreneurship more than ever before in its history, while other countries were deriding those getting rich in business.

Rohan Silva was at Level39 in One Canada Square last week for The Innotech Summit, speaking to a host of leaders in the tech industry.

Throughout history there have been people who have emerged to reflect the grandeur of their times. Does the moment make the man or the man the moment?

■ "You ask, what is our policy? I say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime." Winston Churchill

A flagship technical and creative institute is to be built in Old Street to help the growth of Tech City, the Government announced on Thursday.

It said the £50 million centre, to be built in the area dubbed Silicon Roundabout, will "discover and attract new talent" to east London as well as drive investment in the digital sector.

Government plans that could temporarily halt developments with a mix of social classes have been condemned by experts and politicians in east London.

Last week's announcement proposes to allow developers to appeal against a council's affordable housing requirements if they make schemes unviable.

Conservative Party figurehead Lord Tebbit has thrown his weight behind a campaign for Libyan compensation for the Canary Wharf bomb attack of 16 years ago.

But he also expressed his concern that the issue was not high enough on David Cameron's list of priorities.