The UK government is being urged to provide direct support to key strategic manufacturing sectors and companies to ensure their short-term survival through the pandemic, as well as removing the current security restrictions on loans, to protect significant numbers of highly skilled jobs and critical supply chains across all regions of the country.
The call was mas made by Make UK off the back of the widespread damage being caused to industry by Covid-19. Its latest Manufacturing Monitor (published May 29) showed that almost three-fifths of manufacturers now believe it will take more than 12 months for trading conditions to “return to normal”. The government was right to focus on…
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