How to Be Ruthless With the Treasury and Civil Service to Get Industry Back on Track

Miriam Kate: We need an industrial policy that prefers our own. That includes planning, yes, in terms of what regions are going to be good at what. I think this is where it does come down to political and cultural choices about, are we going to prefer our industries? Is there an economic, cultural and social and political benefit from producing our own? If so, then we have to be intentional about taking away the barriers that, that, that allow these industries to flourish. And one of their reflections is that 14 billion pounds a year has robbed us of manufacturing industry - but also the resource to train up the next generation. It's stupid to put trade tariffs on things that we