This makes me really quite depressed. They're just openly creating more venues for corruption and are really not ashamed about it.

“They were saying you have to be really careful not to make it seem as if they’re paying money for access,” the former staff member said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Ahead of Sunday’s conference opening, TBI’s senior director of policy Ryan Wain celebrated having “more serving cabinet ministers than we’ve ever hosted,” and described the institute’s venue as a place where “people with power, meet people with ideas.”

• The president of AI cloud computing firm ServiceNow, which has won several defence contracts, is billed to introduce a conversation with defence secretary Wes Streeting.
• At a TBI- hosted panel called “Driving the Future,” Uber’s UK policy director will discuss self-driving cars with panellists including roads minister Justin Madders.
• An executive from investment firm General Catalyst, an investor in the prediction market app Polymarket, will join the chief secretary to the treasury Emma Reynolds at a TBI discussion on “unleashing the animal spirits in Britain’s economy”.

How American of them ?