He was the co-host, with Robert Osborne, of a night of movies about advertising on the Turner Classic Movies cable channel.

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The result is the booming RMB trade that Robert Peston describes in his blog, and Mr Osborne is understandably keen to push the city's way.

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So, assuming no big change in their approach between now and November, we have to expect the director, Robert Chote, to be delivering some bad news to Mr Osborne in the coming weeks.

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