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UK industrial strategy

  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    UK to unveil plans for new defence industrial council

    Ministers want to deepen government links with tech companies and start-ups

    Defence Secretary John Healey visits RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    Pru chair Shriti Vadera picked to head UK creative industries council

    City veteran will help develop policy in one of government’s eight high-growth sectors

    Shriti Vadera at a forum in New York, US in September 2023
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    News in-depthUK business
    The race to shape UK industrial strategy

    Business leaders and regional mayors try to influence government’s flagship economic growth policy

    Montage image of a Bentley factory in Crewe; Rolls Royce factory Derby; Astra Zeneca vaccine
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    Microsoft UK chief to head government’s industrial strategy council

    Clare Barclay will lead new statutory body tasked with helping Britain win investment away from rival nations

  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    News in-depthHarland & Wolff Group Holdings Plc
    Harland & Wolff races to keep its shipyards alive

    Clock is ticking in search for buyers of 163-year-old Belfast landmark and three other works across UK

    A ship worker leaves the Harland and Wolff shipyard
  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    UK to resurrect ‘industrial strategy’ in bid for global funds, says Reynolds

    Business secretary is ‘sick’ of France and Spain attracting investment that could come to Britain

    Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds in central Manchester
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    UK universities
    UK urged to reform science research funding to compete globally

    Report by Lord Mandelson calls for more focus on critical technologies as part of wider industrial strategy

  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Harland & Wolff Group Holdings Plc
    Titanic shipbuilder Harland & Wolff probes £25mn ‘misapplication’ of funds

    Interim executive chair says he has launched an ‘independent’ investigation

    Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast
  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    LexResearch and development
    Big Pharma has big asks when it comes to investing in the UK Premium content

    Easing the squeeze on the share of health spending that goes on medicine may alleviate pain

    Test tubes seen in front of the AstraZeneca logo
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    Harland & Wolff Group Holdings Plc
    Titanic maker Harland & Wolff seeks fresh loan as it fights for survival

    Shipbuilder in emergency talks with Wall Street backer Riverstone

    A mural honouring the Titanic on a wall in Belfast, while at the end of the street rises one of Harland & Wolff’s yellow cranes
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Labour’s Britain champions a more active state

    The government should strive to be an enabler, not a controller

    King Charles III and Queen Camilla lead a procession through the House of Lords
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    UK ministers set to reject £200mn loan backing for Titanic maker Harland & Wolff

    Labour government said to have decided granting debt guarantee would be ‘deeply irresponsible’

    Harland & Wolff Heavy Industries  facilities at the Port of Belfast
  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2024
    News in-depth
    Can Labour lift UK business investment from the bottom of the league?

    Years of policy U-turns and Brexit upheaval have left a lasting legacy, entrepreneurs warn

    Rachel Reeves
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Labour clean energy plan undermined by inadequate funds, says think-tank

    IPPR calls into question party’s pledge to ‘reindustrialise’ UK through state-led investment

    Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves visit Ocean Gate container terminal at Southampton docks
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    The State of Britain
    Does Britain need an industrial strategy? Premium content

    Labour identifies support for key sectors if it wins the election but critics say state intervention distorts the free market

    Britishvolt’s planned electric vehicle plant in Blyth in northern England
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Peter Mandelson
    The green transition can kick-start a revival in UK manufacturing

    In the race to meet global demand for climate-friendly tech and products, government needs to nurture potential winners

    A silhouetted person walks up a road with wind turbines and a sunrise in the background
  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    Gillian Tett
    How to tell good industrial policy from bad

    Experience shows that encouraging exports rather than slapping tariffs on imports works best

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of industrial buildings and funnels are shaping a thump up hand and a thump down hand for good and bad industrial policies.
  • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
    Helen Thomas
    The crucial thing missing from the vaunted business investment bonanza

    Government should be specific about what it wants to target and create regulation to support its goal

    A researcher works in a laboratory in London, using genome sequencing equipment
  • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
    Electric vehicles
    UK ‘lags behind’ competitors in securing battery plants, warn MPs

    Commons committee says 160,000 carmaking jobs ‘at risk’ unless new investors sign up

    Nissan’s car plant in Sunderland, which makes the Leaf electric vehicle
  • Friday, 17 November, 2023
    Watches & Jewellery
    The UK school building local knowledge of watchmaking

    Swiss industry-standard training in Greater Manchester aims to help plug a gap of thousands of workers and improve customer service

    A mentor and his  students at the British School of Watchmaking
  • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
    Helen Thomas
    Britain needs to take its sheds more seriously

    Industrial and logistics is the poor relation in a planning system that doesn’t do much very well

    An aerial view of the Amazon fulfilment centre in Coventry,
  • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
    Nathalie Thomas
    Britain’s industrial strategy is still missing in action

    Short-term tax incentives and constant policy changes are weighing on companies’ investment drive

    An electric Mini charging in London.
  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    No ‘subsidy bowl’ for UK net zero drive, vows Hunt

    Chancellor backs case-by-case investment as government’s £500mn steel package is announced

    UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt
  • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Principles for good industrial policy

    A focus on an open and competitive business environment creates agile economies

    A worker checks a solar panel in Georgia, US. The scale of government intervention combined with provisions that favour domestic production leaves most economists sceptical about the IRA’s long-term impact
  • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
    UK manufacturing
    Kemi Badenoch seeks cash for UK ‘advanced manufacturing plan’

    Business secretary wants Treasury to provide financial firepower to help motor and aerospace industries

    Battery manufacturing for the Nissan Leaf car at Nissan’s plant in Sunderland, north-east England
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