Canary Wharf Group’s chief executive pauses as we reach a revolving door into its retail centre to point out a passing figure. “There you go. You never saw a person with a suitcase before ...

Huge slices are to be cut out of the HSBC skyscraper in Canary Wharf under plans to turn it into a tourist hub instead of an office block. A radical redevelopment of the 1.1m sq ft tower ...