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I was delighted to join Shadow minsiter for business & enterprise, Mark Prisk MP, and several other PPCs from the region on a tour of Diageo's facilities last week.

Diageo produces many of the world's leading alcoholic drink brands including Guinness, Bailey's, Smirnoff and Bushmills whiskey.

We learnt about the innovation and research taking place right here in our region, and also about the plans Diageo has for new products and expansion.

Robert Halfon, the PPC for Harlow, was delighted to learn that the technology that stopped whiskey and cream congealing that enables Bailey's to exist (one of Diageo's most popular products) was invented in his own constituency.  I am stood next to the machine that produced the very fist Bailey's in one of the accompanying pictures.  How technology has advanced! 

You may also be wondering what we are doing with nose pegs on in another picture:  we were given the opportunity to go into the 'tasting' room, and the nose pegs are used to help 'tasters' (lucky people) differentiate smells and tastes - but alas we were only testing sugar bean sweets not the latest alcoholic offerings on our visit.  I look forward to a return visit!