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    • 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
    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
      Kemi Badenoch
      UK government can’t pick winners but it can help the car industry succeed

      Believers in the free market must reckon with countries prepared to spend colossal sums to claim a share of the market

      Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (R) and Tata chair, Natarajan Chandrasekaran, view a battery cell during a visit to Land Rover for an announcement on a new electric car battery factory in Warwick, England
    • Friday, 23 June, 2023
      Diane Coyle
      If the UK doesn’t play the strategic policy game, of course it will lose

      The market will deliver — but only if the government sets a consistent set of rules

      A man walking down a road in an English  industrial town in 1970
    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
      LexNathalie Thomas
      The Lex Newsletter: Sunak should power up UK gigafactory plan Premium content

      PM’s battery strategy cannot match US financial firepower but it could target gaps in support

      Envision’s gigafactory in Sunderland supplies batteries for Nissan’s Leaf electric car
    • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
      Batteries
      Battery boss urges UK to close subsidies gap with EU and US

      AMTE’s chief says ministers must offer more financial support to become competitive

      Alan Hollis
    • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
      Helen Thomas
      Ailing UK life sciences sector will need further treatment

      Policy prescriptions are plentiful but momentum and money behind them is lacking

    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      Camilla Cavendish
      A bureaucratic tangle has replaced the UK’s industrial policy

      Helping with regulation, intellectual property and infrastructure is the least the government can do

      An illustration of a horseman wearing a blue striped suit and cowboy hat, carrying an umbrella and with a blower hat in the air. The horse has a union jack flag around its neck and is on its hind legs, while the rider tries to throw a lasso at a depiction of an industrial complex
    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      Semiconductors
      UK government unveils long-awaited £1bn semiconductor strategy

      Support package is aimed at boosting resilience of chip sector

      An equipment technician operates a machine used for the production of semiconductor wafer products
    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      News in-depth
      Sunak’s lack of industrial strategy attacked by former business secretaries

      UK prime minister’s policies described as ‘surreptitious’, ‘undercover’ and ‘in the ether’

      Greg Clark, Lord Peter Mandelson and Sir Vince Cable
    • Monday, 8 May, 2023
      UK manufacturers urge ministers to draw up an industrial strategy

      Trade body calls on government to stop ‘flip-flopping’ and set up a Royal Commission to develop a long-term plan

      A man works at Cumbria Crystal’s factory in Ulverston near Barrow-in-Furness, northern England
    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
      Tej Parikh
      Britain needs to decide what it wants to be good at

      Sunak’s government is suspicious of industrial policy but it needs to focus on sectors where the UK has a global role

      An employee welds two sections of a fabricated steel beam at Severfield Plc steel fabricators in Dalton, near Thirsk, UK, last year
    • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
      Jaguar Land Rover Ltd
      Jaguar Land Rover owner demands £500mn from UK for battery factory

      Tata Motors will decide between Somerset and Spain for new plant within weeks

      A Jaguar I-Pace
    • Sunday, 12 February, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      A UK government revamp in search of a strategy

      Reorganisation of business, energy and technology is the latest in a long line

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Sir Geoffrey Owen
      The merry-go-round of business ministry remodelling starts again

      Hived off, put back together, renamed and refashioned, the UK’s industry department could do with some stability

      Harold Wilson arriving at 10 Downing Street after being elected as Britain’s new prime minister in 1964
    • Saturday, 28 January, 2023
      News in-depthBritishvolt
      Britishvolt collapse prompts calls for shake-up of UK subsidy policies

      More must be done to attract investment that will be vital to energy transition, say industry insiders

      Dr  Nessa Fereshtek Janice with a Submerged cell testing unit in WMG at the University of Warwick
    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      UK economy
      Business complains Hunt’s UK growth plan lacks new policies

      Lobby groups express disappointment with chancellor’s ‘empty’ keynote speech

      Jeremy Hunt at Bloomberg in the City of London, England on January 27 2023
    • Sunday, 15 January, 2023
      Kwarteng rebuked for scrapping industrial policy plan

      Ex-Tory business minister Greg Clark says move by his successor was ‘mystifying’

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      Disrupted Times
      Green with envy: debate heats up over US subsidies

      Also in this edition: UK strikes escalate, Goldman’s job and spending cuts, Brazil on alert for more protests

      Worker at Hanwha Q Cells factory
    • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
      Helen Thomas
      Muddle over Welsh semiconductor company is a lesson in strategy

      Saga of Newport Wafer Fab is one of passing government interest and neglect

      The Newport Wafer Fab facility
    • Wednesday, 2 November, 2022
      Cat Rutter Pooley
      Britishvolt: the UK’s EV strategy can’t run on fumes

      Government support is needed for Britain’s battery sector — but not necessarily for this particular start-up

      A rendering of Britishvolt’s planned plant in Blyth
    • Sunday, 9 October, 2022
      News in-depth
      Takeovers and weak pound put spotlight on UK aerospace and defence

      Contracting British ownership renews debate over future of vital industry

      A Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet produced by BAE Systems
    • Thursday, 6 October, 2022
      John Thornhill
      Britain needs a growth strategy for the second machine age

      Rather than criticising growth-blockers, Liz Truss should be doing more to support risk-taking entrepreneurs

      Passengers use an escalator on the Elizabeth Line at Farringdon Station in London
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