75% now believe more strongly in importance of UK manufacturing

Posted on 3 Jun 2020 by Jonny Williamson

The UK public is firmly behind the manufacturing sector with almost three in four believing that industrial businesses stepped up to meet the challenge of supporting the nation and the NHS as Covid-19 took hold.

The same number of respondents believe that a strategic long-term plan for helping manufacturing to become more productive and competitive will help provide insulation from future pandemics and go some way to protect the UK economy, of which manufacturing contributes almost 20%. The research, conducted among 2,000 adults and commissioned by industrial communications firm Cadence Innovation…

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