Good morning everyone and welcome to our presentation.
Thank you for joining my first results presentation as Imperial CEO.
I'm sorry, we cannot meet in person today, but I very much look forward to doing so in the future.
I'm joined today by Oliver Tant, our Chief Financial Officer and Peter Durman, our Investor Relations Director.
And before we get started, I suspect some of you might be asking why I took the role and what I think I can bring to Imperial.
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