When a new Cabinet is named, the focus is generally on the Prime Minister and the Chancellor. Rishi Sunak’s new team, announced as this is being written, includes Grant Shapps as the new Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
I include the full title to illustrate the broad reach this job has, and I would argue that the person with the most influence on wealth creation in the UK is at least as important as the new PM and Chancellor. Shapps takes up this new role as manufacturing stares over a cliff edge in…
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