Hester and Rose set for CBI conference

ROYAL Bank of Scotland boss Stephen Hester and Marks & Spencer's Sir Stuart Rose will be among the leading figures debating "the shape of things to come" at the CBI's annual conference on 23 November.

Speakers at the event include Conservative Party leader David Cameron, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, Lord Adair Turner, chairman of the Financial Services Authority, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund.