The need for a real manufacturing strategy is a cyclical subject that gets regular exercise, but despite a raft of initiatives very little has strategically changed in Britain. The least we can do for proper economic rebalancing is to set targets, says BDO’s Tom Lawton, but that’s not all.
Scan the literature on the need for a UK manufacturing strategy and there is a strong sense of déjà vu . It is sad and perhaps trite to say that for five years, 10-years – who knows how long – the same shopping list of needs for industrial growth get reeled out every year by…
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